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Title: Le Pontreau French Coastal Landscape Watercolour Seaside Scene by Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.25 x 5.75 inches
Inscribed lower right, Le Pontreau
Condition: Good overall, with light handling marks and slight 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: A delicately balanced French coastal landscape by Pierre Neveu (b.1929), titled Le Pontreau. This tranquil watercolour captures the charm of a small seaside hamlet, with distant houses, boats, and grassy shoreline rendered in Neveu’s distinctive, expressive hand. The piece exudes a sense of quiet rural beauty — a glimpse of everyday France distilled through the artist’s confident draughtsmanship and lyrical colour palette.
Neveu’s mastery of watercolour technique is evident in the way transparent washes and fine ink lines interact, building form and depth without heaviness. The cool blues and greens of the landscape are punctuated by warm ochres and terracotta roofs, lending the composition balance and vitality. The brushwork, fluid yet precise, reveals the artist’s architectural training while preserving the spontaneity of direct observation.
Pierre Neveu trained at the École Boulle and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, later serving as Professor of Drawing for the City of Paris. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Artistes Français, earning the Gold Medal in 1994. His work combines the structural clarity of French modernism with a lyrical sensitivity to light and landscape.
This charming study of Le Pontreau — a likely reference to a quiet coastal or riverside setting in western France — exemplifies Neveu’s gift for transforming fleeting moments into lasting impressions. A timeless addition for collectors of 20th-century French landscape watercolours.
- Creator:Pierre Neveu (1929)
- Dimensions:Height: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)Width: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509317190952
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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