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About the Item
Title: French Village Archway Stone Passage Terracotta Houses and Sunlit Alley Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 9.75 x 6.25 inches
Condition: Good overall, with light handling marks, faint surface freckles, and minor edge wear consistent with age.
Provenance: From the artist’s studio sale in France; all works by this artist in our collection originate from the artist’s estate.
Description: This atmospheric village study by Pierre Neveu presents a striking view through a deep stone archway into a warm, sunlit alley lined with terracotta-coloured houses. Neveu’s architectural compositions are prized for their ability to capture the mood of historic French towns, and this example demonstrates his mastery of light, shadow, and structural rhythm.
The composition is framed by the dark interior of an arch, painted in rich blacks, browns, and cool greys. This strong tonal contrast leads the viewer’s gaze outward toward a cluster of glowing ochre and sienna-toned buildings. The central structure, with its textured walls and shuttered windows, rises under a pale sky carefully modulated in soft, translucent blue washes. The smaller building at right is painted in warm golden hues with deep green shutters—colours reminiscent of Provence and central French village architecture.
Neveu’s ink work provides elegant scaffolding throughout the scene: outlines of rooftops, window frames, gutters, and stone details are sketched with economy and confidence. Loose pencil marks beneath the washes reveal the artist’s working process, suggesting a plein-air study completed on location.
The sloping ground plane moves gently upward toward a shadowed tunnel at the centre of the composition, giving the work depth and the sense of moving through a centuries-old passageway. The interplay of sunlight against the darker interior arch highlights Neveu’s particular sensitivity to atmosphere—one of the defining characteristics of his Post-Impressionist approach.
Neveu (b.1929), trained at the École Boulle and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, exhibited at major French Salons and was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1994.
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- Creator:Pierre Neveu (1929)
- Dimensions:Height: 9.75 in (24.77 cm)Width: 6.25 in (15.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509317308512
Pierre Neveu
Pierre Neveu was born in Paris. He was a professor of Drawing. Some of his exhibits include Invite d'honneur, Salon de Margency (1998); Nolan-Rankin Galleries Houston, Texas (1997); Kulturklub des Europäischen Patentamt Munich (1987); Beernau Foret-Noir (1985); and Marie de Tour-sur-Marne, Champagne (1983).
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