Lot Essay
Valette played a key role in Lowry's art education and significantly showed the British artist the potential of the urban landscape as subject matter.
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Le Puy
Details
Pierre Adolphe Valette (1876-1942)
Le Puy
signed 'A. Valette' (lower left) and inscribed 'Le Puy' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
9 x 11½ in. (22.9 x 29.3 cm.)
Le Puy
signed 'A. Valette' (lower left) and inscribed 'Le Puy' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
9 x 11½ in. (22.9 x 29.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester, by October 1994.