Yves Calméjane Paintings

"The Path of Playing Hooky" ("Le chemin de l'école buissonnière"), by Yves Calméjane, is an evocative oil on canvas that sweeps the viewer into the pastoral tranquility of the Dordog...

This artwork is a unique masterpiece. Isn't it amazing how that few a number of strokes can depict reality with such accuracy ? A single stroke is more than enough for Yves Calmeja...

This painting has an interesting backstory. Borias is a French locality of the Livradois-Forez, between Augerolles and the Brugeron. The artist was painting this artwork, when the ...

Maybe it's just the chair with straw seat, or the vivid orange-brown tone, but this painting brings Van Gogh to mind, though technically it is fa...

Since the painter planted his easel on the riverbank opposite the customary vantage point, this oil on canvas reveals a side of Brantôme's Pont Coudé that most visitors never pause t...

A deep ochre warmth spreads across this generously scaled oil on canvas, measuring H 31.9 in x W 39.4 in x D 0.8 in, pulling the eye across an undulating rural landscape that breathe...

This oil on canvas, measuring H 23.6 in x W 28.7 in, captures a luminous afternoon along the Dronne river in Brantôme, a medieval town in the Périgord sometimes called the Venice of ...

This artwork depicts a rural landscape in winter, covered with snow. The cold weather can almost be felt through the frozen sky. Yves Calméjane usually uses light impasto techniqu...

This artwork depicts a rural landscape, with cows in a prairie, a fence in the foreground, a farm in the background, and fall colors. Yves Calméjane usually uses light impasto tech...

This painting is a quietly commanding plein-air landscape in oil on canvas, measuring H 31.9 in x W 39.4 in x D 0.8 in, depicting the edge of a cultivated field under a pale, cloud-d...

This painting is a quietly luminous depiction of a snow-covered garden in winter, rendered in oil on canvas at H 23.6 in x W 28.7 in. Bare deciduous trees dominate the foreground and...

This painting is a luminous oil on canvas landscape capturing a stretch of rural countryside under a pale, wind-streaked sky, rendered with the quiet attentiveness of an artist who h...

A golden wheat field stretches across the canvas under a bruised and restless sky, the grain bent slightly by an unseen wind that seems to arrive just ahead of the rain. Tire tracks ...

This artwork draws the viewer down a winding country track flanked by shrubs and trees ablaze in the full drama of autumn. The rutted path, catching a pale glint of light, curves bac...