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Max Papart

"Through the window, you can observe the past or the future."

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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.

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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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Art movements

+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
All art movements

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