PESKE JEAN

FRENCH PAINTOR BORN IN UKRAINE ( 1870 - 1949 )

Jean Peské attended at first the class of the School of painting of Kiev, then those of the School of Fine Arts of Odessa and that of Warsaw. Then settled down in France en1891. He joined the Academy Julian, where he had professors as Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He frequented the Polish circles of the capital and numerous artists among whom Guillaume Apollinaire, Signac, Pissarro, Bonnard, Vuillard. Under the influence of Signac, he ventured on the pointillism and then joined the group of Nabis, between 1895 and 1900, and exposed with Sérusier, Bonnard and Vuillard, at The Barc de Boutteville. From 1900, he found his place among the postimpressionists. He exposed many a time from 1895, in the Salon of the Independents, in the Autumn salon, and afterward in the biggest galleries. He reached a great fame between 1920s and 1940. Between both wars, he had very important customers, in particular Hennesy and Llinas.