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“Watercolourist, that is to say painter of chance, of the unexpected.”
– Ludovic PIETTE (1826-1878), My Dear Pissarro.
If chance is the hand of God when he does not want to sign with his hand, the unexpected is the signature of the artist when he grasps the nature of his hand.
We can easily guess the scene: sitting on his folding chair, bending over in front of his easel, given over to the charm of a nature which poses with coquetry, DELASSALE is delighted. The gentle changes of nuances – quite feminine – of this rather amiable nature, sublimate the tranquility of a stream which abandons its shore, the Isère.
“Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has a force, a power, a liveliness of touch which one does not find any more in the workshop.”
– Eugène BOUDIN, 1888 – French landscape painter.
One can only be intimate with this nature to make it so captivating. This brilliant representative of the Lyon school practices painting, charcoal, etching and pastels, in the Dauphinois region. Essentially a landscape designer, he produces panoramas often taken from life. DELASSALE stands out for the romanticism of his watercolors – free and spontaneous. He carefully handles a light palette with indigo suspicions, in which we perceive subtle variations in light. This light – well known from the mountains of the Grésivaudan valley – irrigates Isère with its great clarity.
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