Jean Peské (1870 Golta/Ukraine-1949 Le Mans), Landscape

oil, canvas, 60 × 80.5 cm
Signed l. d.: "Peské"

"...the wide horizon, the color of the sky, the intensity of the colors, all these were an incentive to work. The artist tried to capture impressions in a variety of techniques, he painted in watercolor, oil technique, and did printmaking. He wanted to capture the slightest changes in light or tone, analyzing the landscape in minute detail. The heavily saturated color of his studies testified to a search similar to the Fauvists. However, Peske treated color with unusual sensitivity, not crossing the boundary that nature set for him, a kind of "dictionary of art."
M. Chrzanowska-Foltzer, "Provençal conversations" - Polish painters in the south of France from 1909 to the present, "Archives of Emigration. Studies - Sketches - Documents," Toruń 2011, z. 1-2 (14-15), p. 298.