René Seyssaud (1867-1952), from one light to the other

Name: René Seyssaud (1867-1952), d’une lumière à l’autre
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des beaux-arts, La Cohue

From Provence to Brittany, come and discover the landscapes of René Seyssaud, outdoor painter, invited to paint the Finisterian coasts in 1910.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

René Seyssaud, Le Ventoux, vers 1940, huile sur toile, Roubaix, La Piscine © Alain Leprince-Roubaix, musée La Piscine © Adagp, Paris, 2022.

Renowned landscaper, René Seyssaud is mainly attached to Provence, his region of heart and life. Noticed since 1900 by the Parisian critic for his particular and intense use of color, he paints after nature throughout his career, the places he lives and discovers. The exhibition retraces this singular journey and presents for the first time, the journey of René Seyssaud, invited in 1910 to go to Brittany. Twelve oils on canvas are the precious witnesses of a residence spent in Plougasnou, in North Finistère.
The painter’s sensibility is affirmed in a completely different way: his palette adapts to the variations of the atmosphere so particular of Brittany.
Away from all schools, far from the impressionism he rejects, René Seyssaud’s approach to his work reveals an artist faithful to figuration, fiercely independent in his pictorial research.

À propos du lieu

Musée des beaux-arts, La Cohue

15 place Saint Pierre, 56000 Vannes

Morbihan
Bretagne

La Cohue, a term frequently used in the West to designate the market, dates from the 13th century to Vannes and belongs to the Duke of Brittany. The central passage welcomed butchers, bakers, canvassers, merchandisers… but became too narrow, it extended in the fourteenth century into two additional naves facing north and south, and communicating by four bays in pointed arches always visible. In the fifteenth century, the upper room, where the courts of justice of the duke are held, is built perpendicularly to the three naves of the ground floor. It retains its two large gable walls with their bays and stone benches in the embrasure. Transformed in the seventeenth century, this space of beautiful proportions houses the parliament of Brittany exiled in Vannes between 1975 and 1690\. This work requires strengthening the building on the ground floor with massive and vaulted pillars. It was around this time that the entire building had roofs. Under the Revolution, the upper hall served as a