A Life Immersed in Light: Jacques Truphémus and the Poetics of Everyday Jacques Truphémus, born in Grenoble in 1922 and passing away in his beloved Lyon in 2017 at the age of 95, was a painter whose work quietly celebrated the beauty inherent in the ordinary. Though perhaps not a household name internationally, within France – particularly in the Rhône-Alpes region – he held a revered position as a master of atmosphere, a chronicler of intimate interiors and sun-drenched landscapes. His six decades of artistic production weren’t marked by dramatic stylistic shifts but rather by a deepening e…