Rating and value of paintings by Pierre de Clausade

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Artist's rating and value

Thanks to their serene, luminous atmosphere, Pierre de Clausade's works are proving popular with collectors.

On the market, his various realistic compositions are successful at auction. His works sell for between €30 and €4,900, a significant delta but one that says a lot about the value that can be attributed to these canvases.

Some of the artist's works have thus reached unprecedented amounts, as witness his painting Fleur de peau, adjudged at €4,900 in 2008, whereas it was estimated at between €1,290 and €1,930. 

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The artist's works and style

Pierre de Clausade develops a deeply poetic style, in which atmosphere plays a central role, elevating his landscapes beyond mere representation.

His paintings, such as Paysage brumeux (private collection), are imbued with a skilfully mastered chiaroscuro, evoking the vast horizons of the Dutch masters, while remaining resolutely modern in their stripped-down simplicity.

The artist favors a restrained palette, dominated by pearl grays, steel blues and milky whites, creating strikingly subtle lighting effects.

Each nuance seems to melt into the next, contributing to a chromatic harmony that envelops his compositions in a dreamlike veil.

His technique relies on delicate, meticulously layered glazes that lend an almost tactile depth to his tormented skies and vast desert expanses.

Clausade also strives for a simplification of forms: hills, trees or paths sometimes fade away in favor of a play of textures and contrasts, where suggestion takes precedence over detail.

This deliberate sobriety enables him to create contemplative works, where human absence becomes eloquent silence.

The artist is thus distinguished by an approach in which emotion dominates, transforming the landscape into a spiritual experience. This blend of introspection and technical mastery lends his works a rare intensity, inviting the viewer to a meditation on the immensity and transience of the world.

The life of Pierre de Clausade    

Pierre de Clausade was born in 1910, into an artistic environment where his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, offered him a favorable terrain for expression. From an early age, he was immersed in art, discovering a fascinating world of painting and the plastic arts.

After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he embarked on a career marked by multiple influences, ranging from the great masters of classical landscape to more modern trends.

The travels he undertook, particularly in the Midi and Provence, enriched his vision and his work.

There, in contact with the particular light of this region, he found inexhaustible sources of inspiration, which fit perfectly into his quest for a painting filled with light and transparency.

It was during this period that he began to develop his own style, combining the rigor of traditional landscape painting with the experimentation of a freer language, more open to subtle abstractions.

While the artist follows in a certain continuity of French landscape history, his approach is distinguished by a desire to render the soul of the landscape, to capture the intensity of light, the vibration of atmospheres, and no longer simply its faithful representation.

This was also the period when his increasingly personal works began to reach a wide audience, and were recognized in prestigious salons, thus consolidating his place among the painters of his time.

Focus on Les Champs de Lumière, Pierre de Clausade

In Les Champs de lumière, a major work by Pierre de Clausade, the artist takes light and nature head-on, sublimating them with a vibrant, almost sensory touch.

Here, the landscape is not simply a setting; it becomes the vector of an emotion, a meditation on the presence of the world in its purest forms.

This painting, where lines are erased, softened by a benevolent blur, plunges us into a universe where light, almost tangible, seems to merge with earth and sky.

The luminous effect emanating from the canvas lends the scene an almost supernatural dimension. The pastel hues blend with a fluidity that creates a harmony, both calm and vibrant, between sky and fields, between the invisible and the visible.

What's striking about this work is the way Pierre de Clausade stages the landscape as a luminous abstraction, where each brushstroke seems intent on capturing the fleeting moment of light.

The artist succeeds in sublimating what might appear banal - a field of wheat in the morning light - by turning it into a subject of infinite contemplation.

In this fusion of sky and earth, echoes of the great Impressionist masters, such as Monet, are never far away, but de Clausade manages to distill into this interpretation of light a sensibility all his own.

Pierre de Clausade's imprint on his period

Pierre de Clausade left an indelible mark on the period he lived through, marked by a dual desire for renewal and respect for tradition.

If we consider the evolution of twentieth-century landscape painting, the artist embodies this subtle transition between classical rigor and more modern formal research.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when the world of painting oscillated between abstraction and figuration, de Clausade succeeded in sublimating natural elements, particularly light, in a pictorial style that was all transparency and nuance.

He broke away from the more academic figures of his time and asserted himself through an originality not unlike the spirit of the masters of Impressionist painting, but with a slow evolution towards more minimalist compositions, where the landscape becomes a reflection of his deepest feelings.

His influence extends far beyond his works: through his compositions, he touches generations of artists who see him as a key figure in the contemporary landscape movement.

Far from allowing himself to be locked into an era or a trend, Pierre de Clausade manages to embody a gentle modernity, which emancipates itself from the turmoil of the outside world while remaining deeply rooted in the visible, in what is tangible, touchable.

He proves that it is still possible, in a world saturated with innovation, to render the intimacy of the landscape while remaining faithful to a fundamental principle of beauty.

The stylistic influences of Pierre de Clausade

Pierre de Clausade, while part of the abstract art movement, does not escape the profound influences of the great impressionist and post-impressionist movements.

It is in this subtle relationship with light and nature that he finds the imprint of painters such as Monet, whose play of light overturned the classical perception of landscape. But de Clausade doesn't simply imitate or pay homage: he assimilates these influences and transfigures them.

Like Cézanne, he seeks to redefine the perception of space, but far from the geometric rigor of the Aix master, he comes closer to the fluid, sensory experiences of Impressionism. The introduction of a lighter, more lively touch, which he adapts to his own sensibility, marks his break with traditional forms of representation.

Alongside this Impressionist influence is that of the great explorers of pure color, such as Van Gogh and Pissarro, whose vibrant, saturated palettes undoubtedly nurtured his taste for exploring light in almost spiritual forms.

The atmospheric rendering, at once blurred and precise, that he develops in his landscapes also reminds us of the work of the Pont-Aven school, but with this nuance that de Clausade does not seek to fix the subject in a clear form; on the contrary, he makes it dissolve in the brilliance of light.

This blend of influences, sometimes impressionistic, sometimes more abstract, provides fertile ground for the expression of a personal aesthetic in which light, like color, becomes the main player.

His signature

Not all of Pierre de Clausade's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of his signature:  

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