HENRI

DELAVALALLEE

BY
ASEDA OKYERE
 WHO WAS
HENRI DELAVALLEE?

• HENRI DELAVALLEE
(1862, Reims – 1943,
Pont-Aven) was a
French Post-
Impressionist painter
who became a
member of the artist
colony in Pont-Aven. This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.
BIOGRAPHY
 In the early 1880s, one of his artist friends,
Hersart du Buron, encouraged him to go
to Brittany with him to find landscapes they
could paint. They visited the island
of Ushant, Le Faouët and Châteauneuf-du-
Faou before reaching Pont-Aven, where they
stayed with his friend's cousins. In 1886,
during one of his many stays in the village, he
met Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.
• In 1887, thanks to his friend Félix
Bracquemond, he was introduced
to Camille Pissarro and Georges
Seurat. He worked with Pissarro,
whose approach he particularly
appreciated, in Marlotte,
producing works in
the Divisionist and Pointillist styles.
In 1889, he also made etchings.
From 1891 to 1896, he exhibited
at Paul Durand-Ruel's gallery, at
the Société des Amis des Arts in
Nantes, and at the Paris Salons.
• In 1894, he met Paul
Gauguin in Pont-Aven. In May
1895, he exhibited three works
at Liège. In 1896, the family
left Paris for Constantinople
where he and his wife mixed
with Turkish high society. In
1901, they returned to France
and established their home in
Pont-Aven where they
associated with Théodore
Botrel. In 1941, the Galerie
Saluden in Quimper put on a
retrospective of his work. He
died in 1943 in Pont-Aven
where he is buried.
 Gallery

Scene de battage( Women

Threshing ) by Henri Delavallee
•Henri
Delavallée's
engraving Bretonne
fumant la pipe
devant l'âtre
 Henri
Delavallée's La rue
au soleil à Port-
Manech. Painted
around 1887
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