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André Maire (French, 1898-1984)
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signed 'André Maire' (lower right), and signed again (on the back of the frame), and numbered and inscribed with title 'no. 7' (on the backing)
gouache on paper
65 x 80 cm.

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拍品專文

André Maire owed his real artistic formation to the painter Emile Bernard, his future father-in-law at the time. Maire's first great journey, in 1919-21, was to French Indo-China. The drawings he brought back already showed his talent for rendering spectacular and grandiose scale. In 1938-39, he made a long stay in India, returning through Egypt, a journey which was a turning point in his use of colour. In 1946, he won a travel grant to French West Africa. Working in gouache or sanguine and charcoal, he metamorphosed the countries he visited into a magical, entirely personal world. The years between 1948 and 1958 were spent in Indo-China, where he was named professor of drawing. In 1958, he won a travel grant to Madagascar. Over the last fifteen years, many French museums and galleries have held exhibitions of his work.