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Stamp by Max Papart
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsGreetings card 1982
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Max Papart
Max Papart est mort dans sa 83ème année en 1994. Il repose à Meudon dans le petit cimetière des Longs Réages (carré J), proche de Paris. La simple inscription « Artiste peintre graveur » est gravée sur sa pierre tombale. La tombe de Max Papart fait face à celle d’Alberto Magnelli, son ami. Pour lui, avec respect, un coquelicot.
"Malgré son apparence de personne bien comme il faut, Papart n'est pas disposé à subir le soi-disant poids de la tradition, préférant une référence culturelle indispensable et se dérober à cet héritage." - Miclos N. Varga
"Harmonie de la palette, calme des rythmes, justesse des rapports, tout concourt à faire de son art quelque chose d'abouti et d'exemplaire." - André Parinaud
"Il vient d'illuminer d'une douzaine de gravures sept poèmes inédits de Jacques Prévert, « Le jour des temps », [...] et c'est un tour de force que d'avoir traduit en compositions à peine (ou pas) figuratives la poésie la plus explicite du monde." - Jean-Marie Dunoyer
"Le combat engagé par Papart contre les puissances obscures qui pèsent sur notre destin est celui d'un ordre apollinien fondé sur l'équilibre de toutes les facultés et sur le libre arbitre contre ce spectre qui se nomme automatisation." - Waldemar Georges
"Je me réalise en tant qu'être humain." - Max Papart
"Ce peintre, l'un des plus sensibles de l'école de Paris, possède les vertus de faire d'un primitif. Chez lui le raffinement de la vision n'exclut pas une certaine barbarie de la matière." - André Verdet
Notes of biography
Max Papart was born in Marseille in 1911. He briefly attends the School of Beaux-Arts of Marseille, preferring to teach himself to paint. He sets up in Paris in 1936, working as an artisan printer. He exhibits at the Salon des Indépendants and makes his first engravings in aquatint. He participates in diverse group exhibitions.
His first solo exhibitions are organized by the Bureau Gallery in Paris in1938, the by the Sébire Gallery in Marseille in 1946.
Exempt during the Second World War, he takes refuge in his hometown, where he attends the School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Auzias. He actively participates in the liberation of Marseille. After the war, he crosses paths with Prévert, Ribemont-Dessaignes and other poets whose works he illustrates. He shows his work regularly in Salons (Salon de Mai, Peintres témoins de leur temps, etc.), in museums and galleries.
In the second half of the 50’s, he meets César, Henri Goetz, Jean Michel Atlan, James Coignard, Antoni Clavé, artists who make the south of France their home. Max Papart evolves from a post-cubist language towards an expression borrowing from abstraction certain plastic syntheses. Lithographs, engraving, etchings, painting, he often utilizes mixed techniques and collage techniques that he manages with dexterity.
Max Papart died in 1994.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Max Papart », Andrée Caraire et B. Plasse, Ed. Vision des Arts, 1975
- « Max Papart », Jacques Baron, Ed. Le Musée de Poche, 1976
- « M. P., l'homme et l'oeuvre », D. Biry (dir.: B. Dorival), thèse doctorat, 1980
- « M. Papart, Monograph ... », J.-M. Dunoyer, Rizzoli I. P., New York, 1984
- « Max Papart, monographie », R. Green, Ed. Cercle d’Art Poligrafa, Espagne, 1985
- « Max Papart, rétrospective », Ed. Galerie Hanin Nocera, Paris, 1991
- « Max Papart - Auserlesene Werke », Ed. Petrov, 1993
- « Max Papart - Collage », J. M. Dunoyer, Ed. Garnier Nocera, 1994
- « Max Papart – Maquettes », Ed. Garnier Nocera, 1995
- « Max Papart 1911-1994 », A. Caraire, cat., Strasbourg, Ed. Garnier Nocera, 1997
To read from the artist :
- « Ecrits & poésie de M. Papart », Paola garnier, Ed. Garnier Nocera, Paris, 1992
- « Sourdes romances », Michel Butor, gravures de M. P., Dutrou Ed., 1994
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Stamp by Max Papart
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsGreetings card 1982
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Max Papart
Max Papart est mort dans sa 83ème année en 1994. Il repose à Meudon dans le petit cimetière des Longs Réages (carré J), proche de Paris. La simple inscription « Artiste peintre graveur » est gravée sur sa pierre tombale. La tombe de Max Papart fait face à celle d’Alberto Magnelli, son ami. Pour lui, avec respect, un coquelicot.
"Malgré son apparence de personne bien comme il faut, Papart n'est pas disposé à subir le soi-disant poids de la tradition, préférant une référence culturelle indispensable et se dérober à cet héritage." - Miclos N. Varga
"Harmonie de la palette, calme des rythmes, justesse des rapports, tout concourt à faire de son art quelque chose d'abouti et d'exemplaire." - André Parinaud
"Il vient d'illuminer d'une douzaine de gravures sept poèmes inédits de Jacques Prévert, « Le jour des temps », [...] et c'est un tour de force que d'avoir traduit en compositions à peine (ou pas) figuratives la poésie la plus explicite du monde." - Jean-Marie Dunoyer
"Le combat engagé par Papart contre les puissances obscures qui pèsent sur notre destin est celui d'un ordre apollinien fondé sur l'équilibre de toutes les facultés et sur le libre arbitre contre ce spectre qui se nomme automatisation." - Waldemar Georges
"Je me réalise en tant qu'être humain." - Max Papart
"Ce peintre, l'un des plus sensibles de l'école de Paris, possède les vertus de faire d'un primitif. Chez lui le raffinement de la vision n'exclut pas une certaine barbarie de la matière." - André Verdet
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