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328: 222: 443:"We have recently acquired & now have for sale the most astonishing collection of Adolphe Valette drawings on Japanese paper. The set comprises of 14 ink drawings depicting the wine making process in the Beaujolais region of France and the drawings formed the basis of a presentation that Valette's 2nd wife gave at Manchester University at Christmas 1945. Each of drawings measure 80mm x 80mm and are sandwiched in glass as they were shown via a Lantern Show. We also have an original catalogue to accompany the drawings that details the various processes undertaken in the region. This is an incredibly rare and important collection with each of the drawings being of the highest standard. DM us for more info and images" 309: 44: 281: 295: 192: 206:
became a pupil of Valette, and expressed great admiration for his tutor, who taught him new techniques and showed him the potential of the urban landscape as a subject. He called him "a real teacher ... a dedicated teacher" and added: "I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of the coming into this
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hosted an exhibition of about 100 works by Valette, alongside works by Lowry, between October 2011 and January 2012. It included paintings of Manchester from Manchester Art Gallery and loans from private owners.
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In 1920 Valette resigned from the Institute owing to ill health. He stayed in Lancashire for eight more years, teaching privately and painting in Manchester and
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drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of French impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris".
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to Valette, located on the site on Manchester School of Art on Grosvenor Street, in Manchester, inscribed:
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painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of
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Valette and the Post-Impressionists in "The Northern School: A Reappraisal", Martin Regan 2016,
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Adolphe Valette (1876–1942), French painter and teacher in the School of Art 1907–1920
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A series of fourteen drawings by Valette, mounted between glass as
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in eastern central France, on 13 October 1876, he trained at the
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and in 1907 he was invited to join the staff as a teacher.
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Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs,
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Adolphe Valette
A head and shoulders portrait of a thirty something man, with a dark beard, facing towards the viewer
Saint-Étienne
Blacé en Beaujolais
Bordeaux
Birkbeck Institute
Painting
drawing
Impressionism
Impressionist
Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery
L. S. Lowry
Saint-Étienne
Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs
Bordeaux
Birkbeck Institute
Manchester Municipal School of Art

Salford
L. S. Lowry
Bolton
Blacé en Beaujolais

lantern slides
Impressionist
The Lowry
blue plaque
Albert Square
Albert Square

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