Adolphe Valette: A Pioneer of Impressionism in Manchester

Sat 15 October - Sun 29 January

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Adolphe Valette Manchester Ship Canal
Nicholas and Anthony Goeritz Collection

“I cannot over-estimate the effect on me… of the coming into this drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of French Impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris. He had a freshness… that was a very wonderful thing… I had not seen drawings like these before.” LS Lowry

Born in France, Adolphe Valette was to make his name in Manchester. As teacher of LS Lowry, he saw his pupil’s fame outstrip his own, but while this exhibition explores the relationship between these two artists, it also celebrates Valette’s own skills as a painter.

Valette introduced his own brand of Impressionism to the city in a series of paintings that captured the atmospheric mood of the streets, squares, waterways and buildings, seemingly forever shrouded in fog and pollution. Less well known are his light-filled, beautifully coloured landscapes and domestic scenes painted in France, many on show here for the first time.

First Impressions - a play by Veronica Turiano
Date: Sun 29 January at 1pm and 3pm
Cécilia Lyon, the curator of the exhibition, will be signing copies of her book Adolphe Valette outside of the Lowry shop between performances of the play.
Find out more at the Tab above.

Gallery Opening Times
Open: Sun - Fri 11am; Sat 10am.
Close: Closing times daily 5pm.

The galleries will be open until 7.30pm on the following dates:
Sat 28 January in the Theatres: Beauty and the Beast, re:play 2012, Laura White.
Tue 13 March in the Theatres: Travelling Light, Stevenage.
Sat 24 March in the Theatres: Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!, Terry Alderton, U.Dance.
Tue 27 March in the Theatres: Entity.

Admission is free but donations are always welcome to help us to care for and display works from The Lowry Collection.