HERVE Jules René (1887/1981)

Paris animation at Place de La Madeleine.

Oil on canvas signed lower left.

65 x 81 cm

Certificate of authenticity.

Museums: Annecy, Calais, Casablanca, Chicago, Dijon, Langres, Luxeuil-Les-Bains, Montreal, New York, Paris, Saint-Etienne, Tourcoing, Troyes.

Literature: Bénézit – Dictionary of the minor masters of painting by Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne – “Jules rené Hervé an enchanting master of 20th century painting” by Bernard Masson – “The top of the pavement of Langres” by Gérard Gueniot – The painter and the animal in France in the 19th century by Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier –

Jules René HERVE, Born in Langres (Haute-Marne) in 1887, Died in Langres in 1981 Painter of typical scenes, figures, portraits, landscapes. A student of Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler, Jules René Hervé settled in Paris and began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1910. Jules René Hervé received a silver medal there in 1914 and a gold medal in 1925. Then Jules René Hervé divided his life between Paris and his native city, where he painted, with a light brush, expert in small, vivid bursts on skillfully distributed grays or ochres, the humble and picturesque events, the portraits of its austere society with its monotonous and hushed existence - But Jules René Hervé knows just as well how to restore the lively atmosphere of Parisian life and its monuments or the dancers in the foyer of the Opera - From his finely observed compositions emanate delicate feelings - Appreciated by French and foreign amateurs, Jules René Hervé devoted himself to his art throughout his life - Jules René Hervé is considered "the last of the impressionists"

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