Jacques Truphémus (1922-2017), Osaka - Japanese

Jacques Truphémus
Born in Grenoble on October 25, 1922, and died in Lyon in 2017, Truphémus was a painter, pastellist and engraver. During his career, he painted interiors, figures, landscapes with figures, waterscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, harbor scenes and architectural views.
Truphémus studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon from 1942 to 1945, where he now lives and works.

Invited by architect friends, he traveled to Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka) in 1970 and returned with a new artistic technique: a new interest in line and drawing. Matter is lightened, forms evanescent.
On his return, he began research into space and light.
In 1974, he published a notebook entitled Croquis du Japon, a collection of sketches and watercolors drawn during his trip. On his return, he began a series of paintings on the theme of Japan. He reworked this subject towards the end of his life.
Here, the canvas depicts a Japanese woman from Osaka.