Jean Chaleye - Artist Info

About Jean Chaleye

  • Biography

    Considered one of the most important Post Impressionists, Jean Chaleye was born to working class parents in Paris in the middle of the 19th Century. He began his career as a commercial engraver at the age of fourteen, which he continued until 1899 when he took a trip to England. He returned the following year to do his military service and on completion returned to the city of his birth.

    He participated to brilliant exhibitions : Paris (1946), New York (1947), ... and was very often rewarded. Among these exhibitions were:
    - Peintres Témoins de leur temps (Grand Prix 1947),
    - Prix du Gemmail...

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