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Alfred Veillet
Alfred Veillet par Jean Texier (1924)
Born(1882-03-02)March 2, 1882
Ézy-sur-Eure, France
DiedApril 9, 1958(1958-04-09) (aged 76)
Rolleboise, Yvelines)

Alfred Veillet (March 2, 1882 - April 9, 1958)[1] was a French painter.

Biography

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Born in Ézy-sur-Eure from Jean Léon Veillet, painter worker, and Clémence Marquis, housewife, he began his professional career in 1898 as a worker painter in Bonnières-sur-Seine. Having become a qualified decorator, the chance of an order led him to Percival Rosseau, painter American established in Rolleboise, to whom he showed his first paintings. The latter introduced him to his compatriot and neighbor Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter naturalist and great admirer of Corot, as Veillet.[1] These contacts encouraged him to continue his artistic activity.

In 1905, he made the acquaintance of the painter Maximilien Luce during the independent living room in Paris, bought him two landscapes, and became friends with him.[2] He convinced him in 1920 to buy a house in Rolleboise, not far from his.[3][4]

That same year he sent his first painting to the Salon des Indépendants, in which he regularly participated throughout his life. In 1906, he set up on his own in Freneuse, then in 1913 in Rolleboise. Besides Maximilien Luce, Ridgway Knight, Percival Rosseau, he also frequents Georgette Agutte, Herbert Ward, Jean Texcier.[2] and more occasionally Paul Signac, Albert Dagnaux, Charles Angrand. Participating in numerous fairs and exhibitions, he is recognized by art critics such as Apollinaire, André Warnod or Roger Allard.[1]

When the First World War struck, although reformed due to poor health, he enlisted as a voluntary combatant with the rank of corporal, took part in various battles, but was seriously wounded in the head on July 2, 1917 at Chemin des Dames. This will earn him several quotes and several decorations. After having been trepanned, hospitalized for a year, he remains war disabled, suffering from headaches, dizziness, dysmnesia and partial deafness.,[5][2][6] but he nevertheless continues to exercise his art.[1]

He was deputy mayor of Rolleboise, Yvelines, and in 1937, was elected borough councilor of Bonnières-sur-Seine.[1]

On April 9, 1958, he died in Rolleboise, where he was buried.[1]

Trade fairs and exhibitions

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  • From 1905, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants.
  • In 1910: Exhibition at the Galerie Brunner for the benefit of those affected by the centennial flood. Guillaume Apollinaire notices it and quotes it for the first time in the newspaper "L'Intransigeant".
  • In March 1910, the Camentron gallery in Paris devotes a personal exhibition to him where thirty-five paintings are presented.[7]
  • In 1922: Exhibition with Jean Texcier at the Legrip Gallery, in Rouen where Charles Angrand, Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce are invited.
  • In 1923, Veillet participated in the creation of an annual exhibition at Mantes, the first of a long series. Paul Signac, Georgette Agutte, Albert Dagnaux and many artists from the region collaborate. In 1950 the "association of painters from Mantois" was founded, of which Veillet became the first president.
At the same time, Veillet exhibits regularly at the veterans' fair, "la Samothrace".
  • In 1928: Joint exhibition with Maximilien Luce at Tréport, then at Vézelay.[1]

Posthumous exhibitions

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  • In 1959: at the Salon des Independents.[8]
  • In 1970: at the municipal library of Mantes.[9]
  • In 1980: at the Versailles tourist office.[10]
  • In 1990: at the Regional Center for Cultural Development of Rosny-sur-Seine.[11]
  • At the beginning of the 2000s: at the "Sloan's auction galleries" in Washington.[12]
  • In 2013: at the Hôtel-Dieu de Mantes museum, as part of the exhibition "Jean Agamemnon & his painters, Luce, Veillet, Lauvray".[13]
  • In 2013 and 2014: at the Hôtel-Dieu museum, on the occasion of an exhibition of paintings relating to Mantes and its region resulting from the donation of Rodolphe Walter in this city.[14]

Work

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In their Dictionary of the little masters, Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne describe the talents of Alfred Veillet as follows:

Attentive to the spectacles of water and the sky, Veillet is an endearing Post-Impressionist, full of verve and poetry, sometimes showing a certain melancholy in front of a nature whose fleeting character he apprehends. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants where Apollinaire noticed him and judged, in 1914, that his landscapes were “delicate like the sites of Sequania which inspired them”[15]

His favorite technique is oil painting, and his subjects are mostly landscapes without people where water dominates: banks of the Seine, ponds, lakes, bridges, seaside, ports... called himself "the last impressionist of the 20th century".[4]

Public collections

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  • A landscape of Vétheuil sous la neige was acquired by the State in 1952.[16]
  • Another of his paintings, entitled Vallée de la Seine is hung in the room of the municipal council of Mureaux.[12]
  • Works by Alfred Veillet are part of the donation of paintings made in 2013 by Rodolphe Walter to the town of Mantes, now visible at the Hôtel-Dieu museum.[14]

Distinctions and tributes

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He receives successively the following decorations:[5]

His name was given to a street in Ézy-sur-Eure, his hometown.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Éphraïm Jouy (2013-05-03). "Alfred Veillet (1882-1958), The master of sky and water". www.art-expertise.net (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-27..
  2. ^ a b c Jean Texcier (November 1928). "Painting: Alfred Veillet". Triptyque (in French). Paris. pp. 25–32. Biography of Veillet, friendship with Luce and Texcier, war.
  3. ^ Chloë Bringuier; Conseil departemental des Yvelines (March 13, 2019). "Maximilien Luce, The softness of the banks of the Seine". Yvelines-infos.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-31..
  4. ^ a b "Alfred Veillet, biography". alfredveillet.net (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-31..
  5. ^ a b Departmental Archives of Yvelines. "Register of military incorporation, Veillet Alfred" (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-28..
  6. ^ "Printing - Painting - La 1914-1918 war". impressionistes.canalblog.com (in French). March 28, 2008. Retrieved 2021-01-02. Alfred Veillet model of Luce for The station of the East under the snow.
  7. ^ "Competitions and exhibitions, exhibition of paintings by M. Alfred Veillet, Camentron gallery". Chronicle of the arts and curiosity (in French). Paris. March 12, 1910. p. 88. Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  8. ^ "The Salon des Independents". Le Monde (in French). April 24, 1959. Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  9. ^ "Retrospective exhibition of the works of Alfred Veillet, founding president of the painters of Mantois". www.alfredveillet.net (in French). Bibliothèque municipale G. Duhamel. May 1970. Retrieved January 1, 2021..
  10. ^ "The school of Rolleboise, Alfred Veillet and his sons Maurice and Jean". www.alfredveillet.net (in French). Versailles - Tourist office. February–March 1980. Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  11. ^ Jean Agamemnon; Regional Development Center cultural (Rosny-sur-Seine) (1990). Alfred Veillet - Ezy 1882 - Rolleboise 1958 (in French). p. 54. ISBN 9782905329011. OCLC 462152798. BnF FRBNF35085345 SUDOC 017094461..
  12. ^ a b "Le patronyme Veillet, Alfred Veillet". andre.veillet.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  13. ^ "Exhibition Jean Agamemnon & his painters, Luce, Veillet, Lauvray". www.alfredveillet.net (in French). Mantes - Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu. March–October 2013. Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  14. ^ a b manteslajolie.fr official site of the city (November 2013 – April 2014). "25/11/2013 - Press kit, city of Mantes-la-Jolie, The exhibition "Regard (s) mantais", the Walter donation to the Hôtel-Dieu museum" (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2021-01-01..
  15. ^ Gérald Schurr; Pierre Cabanne (1996). Dictionary of the Little Masters of Painting 1820-1920 - Volume 2, I to Z (in French). Paris: Éditions de l'Amateur. p. 489. ISBN 2-85917-223-8. OCLC 906904128. BnF FRBNF36964294. Retrieved 2020-12-29. Alfred Veillet: online presentation p. 106-107.
  16. ^ "Countries of the World - Towns and Villages, Ezy sur Eure (27) - the present - Page 3" (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-02..
  17. ^ "Laws and decrees". Official Journal of the French Republic (in French). April 17, 1932. p. 4134. Retrieved 2021-01-02..
  18. ^ Mappy. "Rue Alfred Veillet, 27530 Ézy-sur-Eure". fr.mappy.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-02..

Further reading

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"Veillet, Alfred". Dictionnaire Bénézit. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00189162. ISBN 9780199773787. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Gérald Schurr; Pierre Cabanne (1996). Dictionary of the Little Masters of Painting 1820-1920 - Volume 2, I to Z (in French). Paris: Éditions de l'Amateur. p. 555. ISBN 2-85917-223-8. OCLC 906904128. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
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