Pierre Letellier, French (1928 - 2000)

He was born in Caen, France near the scenic coast of Normandy in 1928. Letellier's coastal environment later became the primary subject of his paintings. Letellier received a formal education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. As a student in the 1940s, Letellier had an academic education and studied from classic sculptures and plaster molds. Letellier's made a number of figurative paintings and lithographs. Letellier often depicted women and performers dressing.

Letellier preferred painting from nature and spent much of his time doing sketches and painting studies outside. As Letellier matured as an artist he focused on painting landscapes and seascape