Description
Founded originally in 1720, La Maison Pastel was acquired in 1878 by Henri Roché; a chemical engineer, chemist, biologist and art enthusiast. He was fascinated by pastel and dreamed of making it a prime painting technique.
In 1937, Dr Henri Roché presented a collection of 1650 colours at the Paris International exhibition, winning him a gold medal and establishing the reputation of Roche pastels. Over the course of nearly three centuries, La Maison du Pastel has counted among its clients, some of the greatest pastellists in the world included the likes of Degas, Chéret, Redon, Whistler, and later Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, and Poliakoff.
Manufactured in small quantities, Roché pastels are individually hand-rolled into a form suitable for both bold and detailed work. With exceptionally lightfast pigments and a minimum of binder, the pastels possess a particular texture that allows them to adhere well to a number of supports, as well as display a remarkable intensity and clarity of colour.
Today, you will find an evolving and expanding collection of over 2000 colours available to artists, the largest range of pastels to have ever existed, , produced as they have always been, entirely by hand.
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