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).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.
