Pierre Adolphe Valette French, 1876-1942
The Irwell , 1913
Oil on hessian
Signed front: Valette, 1913.
Signed front: Valette, 1913.
143.5 x 86cm
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The Irwell stands as a defining landmark within Valette's oeuvre, belonging to the Manchester paintings that brought him his greatest renown. It embodies all the distinctive qualities that defined his...
The Irwell stands as a defining landmark within Valette's oeuvre, belonging to the Manchester paintings that brought him his greatest renown. It embodies all the distinctive qualities that defined his vision of the industrial city: a fascination with atmospheric smog, a refined late-Impressionist technique, commercial waterways, and the warm, echoing glow of city lights flickering amidst the urban haze.
It is also a rarity, standing as the only larger-scale Manchester painting by Valette currently available for private collection, making it an exceptional opportunity for collectors of Valette, Northern art and early 20th-century British and European art.
It is also a rarity, standing as the only larger-scale Manchester painting by Valette currently available for private collection, making it an exceptional opportunity for collectors of Valette, Northern art and early 20th-century British and European art.
Provenance
Longterm loan in Manchester Art Gallery.Purchase direct from the Valette family.
Exhibitions
A French Influence in Manchester at Manchester City Art Galleries (16 Jul - 4 Sep, 1994, No. 53).1976 exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery, No. 78, lent by Martin Green. It is illustrated in the catalogue in black and white, page 35.
Exhibited in the October 1913 exhibition of the Society of Modern Painters at Orme's Buildings in Manchester, No. 52.
Literature
Adolphe Valette & L.S Lowry by Cécilia Lyon (Prose Book Publishing), pg. 84.Valette: A French Influence in Manchester by Sandra Martin (City Art Galleries, 1994), p. 43.
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