Jean Peske (1870-1949), Still Life

Drawing on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 11,5 cm, 19,5 x 21,5 cm (outside passe-partout)
The work is framed in passe-partout
Signed: p.d.: 'Peske'
On the back handwritten description:
Sketch given to Isabelle Grandpierre from V. Martha, great-granddaughter of painter J. Peske (1870-1949),
on 06.06.1993.

Jean Peske (1870-1949). He initially studied at the School of Painting of Nikolai Murashka in Kyiv, and then from 1886 to 89 at the School of Fine Arts in Odesa. In 1890 he became a pupil of Wojciech Gerson at his school in Warsaw. In 1891 he went to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant, where he settled permanently. From 1894, he participated in the Salons: Independent, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Tuilerian. He participated in the artistic life of Paris, and kept in touch with his country, where he exhibited at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery (1892) and at TPSP in Lviv (1900) and Krakow (1910), and participated in an exhibition of Polish art at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1921. He did a lot of plein-air work in the south of France - in Bormes, where he had his own studio until 1926, and in Collioure, where he established a museum of modern French art (now named after him and with a collection of his works). He painted genre scenes maintained in the style of Nabist and Post-Impressionist art, also portraits and landscapes.(Source: Desa Unicum)