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On Friday 16 April @ 6.15 pm, join us for a mesmerising visit of Manchester through the artworks of two of the city’s most iconic painters, L.S. Lowry and his art teacher Adolphe Valette… plus much more….

A talk by Cecilia Lyon, curator and author of Adolphe Valette & L.S. Lowry.

In 1906, L.S. Lowry started attending evening life classes at the Manchester School of Art under the tutelage of Valette, and he was to continue up to the 1920s. Valette, through his French teaching style, gave Lowry the artistic knowledge regarding line and composition which he would later use to great effect in his own drawings and paintings of the Northern industrial scene.

It is Valette who - chronologically - started to catalogue the industrial landscape in and around Manchester with an Impressionist palette, and it was Lowry who gave the various industries, the mills and the factories the ultimate artistic recognition that they deserve as an integral part of the life of the North West region.

The talk will explore the various locations of Manchester depicted by Valette and Lowry, but also the influence of the tuition of Valette on Lowry, the exhibitions in which both artists participated (including new discoveries about the Paris Salons), Lowry’s assessment of Valette’s tutelage … and much more.

The talk will take place in English.

If you already want to delve into the captivating relationship between the two artists Valette and Lowry and prepare your future questions to the author, you can go on Cecilia Lyon’s publisher’s website: www.prosebookpublishing.com

Visit our website for more information about our French classes and activities: https://www.afmanchester.org/