Large canvas by Claude Vallet Landscape of southern France Olive groves

A very fine, large canvas by Claude Vallet, oil on canvas signed and stamped lower right.
Landscape in southern France, almost abstract, painting of olive groves in front of a mountain (La sainte Victoire).
original painting

Provenance painter's studio
Dimensions: 73cm x 100 cm

After a solid training at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Claude Vallet began working for advertising companies in 1947, for which he supplied numerous projects. His teacher was André Auclair (painter, ceramist and tapestry cartonnier), who taught at the Beaux-Arts studios on Boulevard de Montparnasse. But it was to Jean Lombard and Jean Marzelle that he owed his pictorial orientation, heir to the softened cubism of André Lhote.
He made friends with painters of his generation such as Manessier, Bazaine and Baboulène. In the 1950s, he moved to the South of France, settling in Le Revest near Toulon, where he drew some of his inspiration. His research focused on the construction of space in harmony with the light and colors of the South, fascinated by the mineral landscape of the Provencal mountains.
During his stays in Aix, at the foot of the Sainte Victoire mountain, he settled on the motif, where he painted relentlessly, achieving a colorful synthesis of Cézanne landscapes.
He took part in numerous exhibitions, winning the second Charles Pacquement prize at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in 1956, exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Champs-Élysées, participated in numerous exhibitions in Toulon at the Salon de la Peinture et de la Sculpture with Baboulène, Fusaro and Guerrier, at the Galerie Transposition with Lily Massson and Jean Bordes (1969), and at the Centre Culturel Chaillot-Galliera, avenue Georges V, Paris.

Ref: S4605FEEN1