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Exhibition Adolphe Valette

valette_autoportrait_moins_volumineux0001_1664The Allard Museum in Montbrison (department 42 - France) exhibit since this autumn about fifty pictures of the impressionist painter Adolphe Valette.

This exhibition entitled "Course of a Forézien impressionist" includes among others, paintings of Manchester, city where Adolphe Valette was a professor to the School of Fine Arts and of the Beaujolais region (Blacé, Salles-Arbuissonnas..) where he lived when he came back from England in 1928.

Adolphe Valette is famous in Great Britain and a lot of English people not only come to visit this exhibition, bul also stop in the cemetery of Villefranche where he is buried, and in Blacé to see the house where he lived (the road named "Chemin du peintre").

This exhibition which should have last until january 17th, 2011, is prolonged until march 27th 2011.

We owe to the searches of Cecilia Lyon who was impassioned for the life an work of this artist, a great recognition to have allowed Blacéens to rediscover Adolphe Valette who immortalized on his paintings the landcapes and the characters of the municipality.

A magnificent biography dedicated to Adolphe Valette, its life and its works written by Cecilia Lyon is published in French and in English.

For the visit of the exhibition (opening hours, prices..) call the (+33) 04 74 96 39 15 (Museum of Allard in Montbrison).