Jean Peské (1870 Golta/Ukraine-1949 Le Mans), Port of Collioure

watercolor, paper, 37 × 46 cm light frame
Signed l. d.: "Peské"

"(...) Peské introduces us to another world - nature soothing and lush. Little known in our country, this artist, with his talent and work, has won a very prominent position without the noise and tamam of publicity. The scale of his work is extremely extensive: compositions, landscape, portraits, still lifes, etchings and decorative designs using a wide variety of painting techniques, which he has mastered. He continues the tradition of great painting (the Barbizon school) of the first half of the 19th century, which he enriched with the achievements of Impressionist color. The fortunate combination of great drawing with a lush but notched palette [and] a plastic and strong grasp of the subject matter, into which he is deeply involved, constitute the essential and unsurpassed originality of our compatriot."
E. Woroniecki, "Artyści polscy w paryskim salonie [Autumn] ", "Tygodnik Ilustrowany "1924, sem. I, p. 100.