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