Maurice Boitel in 1980

Maurice Boitel (born July 31, 1919) is a French painter. Image File history File links Maurice_Boitel_en_1980. ... Image File history File links Maurice_Boitel_en_1980. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

Artistic life

Maurice Boitel belongs to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" "young picture" of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves Brayer, Louis Vuillermoz, Pierre-Henry, Daniel du Janerand, Gaston Sébire, Paul Colomb, Jean Monneret. Bernard Buffet was an acclaimed French artist by the age of twenty, with a highly distinctive sketchy style. ... Daniel du Janerand (1919 - 1990) was a French painter artist born in the Marais, center of Paris, on July 18, 1919. ...

A precocious vocation

Maurice Boitel was born in Tillières-sur-Avre, Eure departement, in Normandy, from a picard lawyer, member of the saint Francis third order, and from a parisian mother, of burgundian ascent; Until the age of twelve, Maurice Boitel lived in Burgundy at Gevrey-Chambertin. In this beautiful province, his art reflected his major love of nature, and also the feeling of joie de vivre expressed in his works. He began drawing at the age of five. Tillières-sur-Avre is a commune of the Eure département, in northwestern France. ... Eure is a département in the north of France named after the Eure River. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Mont Saint Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ... Gevrey-Chambertin is a French commune, situated in the région of Burgundy, the département of Côte-dOr, the Arrondissement of Dijon and Canton de Gevrey-Chambertin. ...

Fine Arts studies: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts(Paris)

Maurice Boitel studied at the Fine Arts schools of Boulogne-sur-Mer and of Amiens, cities where his parents lived for a few years. Then his family came back to Burgundy, at Nuits-Saint-Georges and he studied at the fine arts academy of Dijon before fighting in a mountain light infantry platoon at the beginning of WW2, even after the truce. Ingres, Self-portrait École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) refers to a number of influential Art schools in France. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ... Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... The cathedral in Amiens Location within France Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ... Nuits-Saint-Georges is a town and commune of the Côte-dOr département, in France. ...

• Demobbed, he successfully sat the competitive examination to enter the National Academy of Fine Arts École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts(Paris). In 1942 and 1943, during the most difficult period of the German occupation, in his studio located in the center of Paris, he hid Jewish refugees, among them the journalist Henry Jelinek.

A great part of his paintings between 1942 and 1946, were bought by a British collector and are still in London. Ingres, Self-portrait École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) refers to a number of influential Art schools in France. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ...

Exhibitions, awards and "Salons"

• In 1946, he received the Abd-el-Tif prize which enabled him to remain for two years in Algiers with Marie-Lucie, his wife, and his son. On his return from Algeria, he exhibited in Paris in the exhibitions of the Young Painters, Jeune Peinture, Independent Artists, Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d'Automne,and after, in the Salon du dessin et de la peinture à l'eau (drawing and water painting), the Salon des Artistes Français, Terre Latine (Latin land), the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, and with Comparisons, Salon "Comparaisons" ; until 2004, he was a member of these two last societies committees.

• In 1949, he presented an individual exhibition of his paintings of Algeria in the Gallery of the Elysée, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, at that time the center of the European art trade.
• In 1951, new individual exhibition in this same gallery; he also took part in a group exhibition in the Suillerot Gallery and topic exhibition, chaired by the producer Jacques Hébertot, within the framework of the Association of the Amateurs of painting.
• In 1958, he received the Antral award from the Town of Paris, and he had simultaneously an individual exhibition in the Modern Art Museum of the Town of Paris (Palais de Chaillot) and in the Gallery Rene Drouet, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where he presented biennial individual exhibitions during twenty years.
• In 1959, he won the Winsor and Newton (Paris-London) award;
• During the fifties, he was commissioned to decorate two educational state establishments in Montreuil-sous-bois (Voltaire school) and Montgeron (J.-C. Gatineau school). He painted single-handedly all the frescoes on the classroom walls. In order to make the ceramics himself, he had a kiln built in his own studio.

• In 1963, the Puvis de Chavannes award, decreed by the National Society of Fine Arts, enabled him to exhibit all of his works at the Museum of Modern art of Paris.
• In 1966, he received the Francis Smith award which offers a stay in Portugal (Peniche, Obidos).
• In 1968, he receives the French Artists Gold Medal and the Academy of Fine Arts decrees the Bastien Lepage Prize to him.
• In 1980, the Institute of France gave him the Dumas-Milliers award. *Different other awards come to crown his career of painter, among whom the Grand Prix of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne (1974), the Prize Roger Deverin watercolour decided by the Taylor Foundation (1984).

Individual exhibitions, in the museums of the following towns: Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1976, Saint-Maur-des-fossés in 1977, Montbard in 1982, Montreuil-sur-mer in 1993, enabled him to present in several rooms, of the retrospectives with large tables where appear of the compositions as well as landscapes of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland etc... Abd-el-Tif prize was a price of painting. ... Map of Algeria showing Algiers province Algiers (French Alger, (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر) El-Jazair, The Islands) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. ... Salon des Indépendants is an exhibition of art held annually since 1884 in Paris, France. ... First Salon dAutomne Catalog In 1903, the first Salon dAutomne (Fall Salon) was organized as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. ... Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts In 1862, was created the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA) with the writer Théophile Gautier as chairman and the painter Aimé Millet as deputy chairman. ... Salon Comparaisons was founded in 1954 by Andrée Bordeaux Le Pecq and Lilas-Bug surrounded by a team of painters and sculptors. ... The last of Voltaires statues by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1781). ... Montgeron is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. ... Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 - October 24, 1898) was a French painter. ... Peniche is a city in Portugal, with approximately 10,000 inhabitants. ... Categories: Stub ... Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Montbard (population 7900 in 1991) is a town in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of the Côte dOr département, in the Burgundy région. ...

• In 1990, the Salon d'Automne of Paris voted him a homage in three halls of the [Grand Palais] of Paris.
• In 1999, President Jean Monneret and the Committee of the Salon des Indépendants of Paris invited him to present a retrospective of his works.
• In 2003, the members of the National Society of Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts) voted the Gold Medal to him.

He was the guest of honor in several exhibitions of painting like: Rosny-sous-Bois (1980), Blois (1983), Wimereux (1984), Villeneuve-le-Roi (1984), Yvetot (1986), Alfortville (1987), Bourges (1987), Saumur (1987), Metz (1991), Limoges (1992), Tours (1992). Rosny-sous-Bois is a town and commune of France, in the suburbs is of Paris. ... Wimereux is a commune of the Pas-de-Calais département, in France. ...

Locations of the paintings

Art connoisseurs from Great Britain, United States , Brazil, Iran, Japan, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Mexico, etc, acquired many paintings, as well as the French State and the Town of Paris.

Some of his works may be seen in museums of the following towns: Dijon, St-Maur des fossés, Sceaux,Valence, Algiers, Constantine, Bejaïa in particular and also in the town council hall of Paris and in French embassies around the world. Location within France Street in the centre of Dijon Arc de triomphe known as the Porte Guillaume, on Place Darcy in the centre of Dijon Dijon and suburbs Dijon ( ) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département and of... Sceaux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Sceaux, in the Yonne département Sceaux, in the Hauts_de_Seine département Sceaux_dAnjou, in the Maine_et_Loire département Sceaux-du-Gâtinais, in the Loiret département Sceaux_sur_Huisne, in the Sarthe département This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Valence is a scientific term in chemistry to describe electrons in the outermost orbital. ... Map of Algeria showing Algiers province Algiers (French Alger, (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر) El-Jazair, The Islands) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. ... Constantine or Qusantînah (Arabic: قسنطينة ) is the capital of Constantine Province (ولاية قسنطينة ) in north-east Algeria, slightly inland, at about 80 kilometers from the coast. ... Bejaïa (//; Vgayet in the kabyle language) is a Mediterranean port on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Béjaïa Province, northern Algeria. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ...

Among his closest friends

are the painter artists Daniel du Janerand, Gabriel Deschamps, Louis Vuillermoz, Pierre-Henry, André Vignoles, Pierre Gaillardot, Rodolphe Caillaux,Jean-Pierre Alaux, Bernard Buffet, André Hambourg, Emilio Grau Sala , Jean Carzou, Paul Collomb and the two brothers Ramon and Antoni Pitxot. Daniel du Janerand (1919 - 1990) was a French painter artist born in the Marais, center of Paris, on July 18, 1919. ... Bernard Buffet was an acclaimed French artist by the age of twenty, with a highly distinctive sketchy style. ... Emilio (Emi) Grau Sala (1911, Barcelona - 1975, Paris) was a Catalan painter. ... Jean Carzou (1907 Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000 Marsac-sur-l’Isle, Dordogne) was born to an Armenian family (his name was Garnik Zouloumian). ... Antoni Pitxot (born 1934 in Figueres) is a Catalan artist. ...

Family links: Henri Corblin (Corblin Burton), Albert Besson (Académie de médecine), Olivier Lazzarotti (université d'Amiens). Albert Besson (1896-1965) was a French hygienist, physician and member of the French Medecine Academy. ...

Present group exhibition:

In april and may 2006: "Majestueux Maghreb" in the Danielle Bourdette-Gorzkowski gallery, quai Saint-Etienne in Honfleur (14600), Normandy. Marrakesh, Morocco, in front of Atlas Mountains in Maghreb The Maghreb (المغرب العربي ; also rendered Maghrib (or rarely Moghreb), meaning western in Arabic, is the region of Africa north of the Sahara Desert and west of the Nile — specifically, coinciding with the Atlas Mountains. ... Honfleur is a harbour commune in the Norman département of Calvados, in France, located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine, very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. ... Mont Saint Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ...

Gallery

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Femme Noire en buste (1942) Image File history File links Maurice_Boitel_-_Femme_Noire_en_buste_1942. ...	Autoportrait (about 1945) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 1054 KB) Summary http://www. ...	Nature morte (1954) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1118x904, 279 KB) Summary Maurice Boitel - Nature morte 1954 - 80x100 cm Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	The hens (1957) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1792x1805, 1030 KB) Summary Maurice Boitel - The hens 1957 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Window at Cadaqués - Antral award (1958) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1806x1281, 1372 KB) Summary Window at Cadaqués 1958 - Antral award 1958 Licensing {{Copyrighted Fair use}} File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	Conches' church (1963) Image File history File links Maurice_Boitel_-_Eglise_de_Conches_1963. ...	Cadaques (1963) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2417x1769, 1326 KB) Summary Maurice Boitel - Cadaques 1963 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	Model (1963) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 3353 KB) Summary Maurice Boitel - Model 1963 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Snow over Conches (about 1970) Image File history File links Maurice_Boitel_-_Neige_à_Conches. ...	Audresselles' sea (1970) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2211x1481, 359 KB) Summary Maurice Boitel - Audresselles see 1970 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Work

The painter's evolution continues imperceptibly during all his life: up to 1946, year of his marriage, an expressive painting, very land, then of 1946 to 1952, a very coloured painting especially in Algeria. From 1952 to 1965, it carries out very personal paintings: in its landscapes, very constructed, the objects are defined by black contours with some flat tints in the knife. During this period, he initially will paint close to the Cape Gris-Nez of the sober and dark paintings of storms, of boats on the beach, ruins of the war. He also paints characters: clowns, poultry stockbreeders, sailors and portraits. Then, from 1958 to 1965, he paints in Cadaqués (Spain) every summer. It is always the same style, firmly framed, but where pass the light and the colors sharp of the Mediterranean (landscapes, navy, portraits, crowd on the beach). Port of Cadaqués Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. ...

From 1965 , his work remains structured but he makes contours disappear: he also more uses the watercolour in particular in Nice , in Italy and in Sancerrois. Each year, he goes close to the Cape Gris-Nez, in Audresselles , or in Ambazac, in the Limousin . The Paris area, where he usually resides, also provided him many subjects (Montmartre, the Wood of Vincennes, islands of the Seine , the Marne , Guermantes and Conches-sur-Gondoire ). During the eighties, he tends to evoke an idealized reality. City flag City coat of arms Motto: [1] (Latin: Nice the city) Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Département Alpes-Maritimes (06) Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur City (commune) Characteristics... Audresselles is a seaside French village and commune, south of Cape Gris Nez, in the Pas-de-Calais département, Nord-Pas-de-Calais région. ... French village on the Gondoire river in Brie, Seine et Marne county (France). ...

Last auction sale

• C/maître Pillon, auctioneer at Versailles (France, 21st may 2006 : oil painting (31.89x45.67inch./81x116 cm) "window at Cadaqués 1958":

3451 euro / USD 4436 (taxes and charges: 551 euro / USD 708). Versailles (pronounced , roughly vair-sye’, in French), formerly the de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. ... Port of Cadaqués Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. ...

Bibliography

• Site dedicated to Maurice Boitel's work
• Bénézit "dictionary of artists" in French (ed.1976 and following), in english(ed.april 2006).
• Catalogue Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer (1976).
• Young Painting (1941 - 1961) by Guy Vignoht. Collection Ground of the Painters - Presses of Workshop B.P.C. (1985).
• Surroundings of the Marne and their painters, by Michel Riousset. Press Lienhart printing works and Co (1986).
• The School of Paris (1945 - 1965) by Lydia Harambourg. Dictionary of the painters. Collection Ides and Calendes (1993).
• Art Gallery collection Japanese woman 1997 - printed in Japan

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