Maurice Estve, Alalito, Souvenirs Et Portraits D'Artistes, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 10 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, diteur, Paris, Alain A.C. Mazo, diteur, Paris, Leon Amiel, diteur, New-York; printed by Mourlot Frres, Paris, April 5, 1972. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing completed in Paris on April 5, 1972, this folio was printed on vlin d'Arches in DCCC numbered examples. Examples have also been printed for the artists, friends and collaborators of this project. The original lithographs were printed by Mourlot and the typography is by Fequet and Baudier. Alain A.C. Mazo, Paris, and Leon Amiel, New York, publishers.

MAURICE ESTEVE (1904-2001), was a French painter. Maurice Estve was born in the French town of Culan (Dpartement Cher) on 2 May 1904. In 1913 he moved to Paris with his parents, where he soon began his education as an artist. Estve worked for a year as designer in a textile factory in Barcelona 1923. During his visits to the Louvre in the 1920s, Estve was particularly impressed by the painters Jean Fouquet and Paolo Uccello. Among the modern artists, Paul Czanne had the greatest influence on Estve. Maurice Estve was largely self-educated, having only attended the free studio of the Acadmie Colarossi in 1924, where he tried to constructively implement of his motifs according to the model of Georges Braque and Fernand Lger, thus creating a kind of Cubist Fauvism. Estve began to move away from realism in 1928, and was influenced in the following years by Lger, Matisse, Picasso, and Bonnard. His first one-man exhibition was given at the Galerie Yvangot, Paris, 1930. He worked as assistant to Robert Delaunay on huge decorative panels for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. In the 1940s his stylized figure, still-life and landscape compositions with strong colors gradually became completely abstract, with tight-knit interlocking shapes in rich, bold colors. Has made a number of watercolors and collages, and designed stained glass in 1957 for a church at Berlincourt in the Bernese Jura. Estve's extensive work was not limited to the genre of painting. He was also active in collage, textile design and murals. Estve avoided the extrovert circles of Avant-garde but still belonged to the core of the artists who brought about the breakthrough of cole de Paris after 1945. Maurice Estve took part in the Venice Biennale in 1954. His uvre, just like the works of his art colleagues Riopelle and Bazaine, established a new pictorial language: Lyrical abstractions with the aim of depicting form and color with an almost poetic attitude. His works have established themselves in many well-known museums and collections around the world.
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