André Maire (1890-1984) is the traveling painter par excellence.
From Indochina, where he completed his military service during the First World War, he continued to travel the world and observe the landscapes.
In France, André Maire has two workshops, one in Paris and one in Burgundy, in Semur en Auxois exactly. But it is the one in Burgundy that he prefers: he has a calm and regular life: in the morning he walks while drawing in search of the pattern, in the afternoon he paints in his studio and in the evening he reads. In these views of Semur, which date from the end of his life, between 1960 and 1984, we find the monumentality that these trips inspired in him.
His unique style combines ethnographic details and personal artistic expressions.
French painter, studied at the School of Fine Arts in the workshop of André Devambez.
At the age of 16 he successively lost his entire family and his in-laws took a major place in his life by marrying the daughter Irène, of Emile Bernard with whom he studied painting. Traveled to Italy and settled in Venice in 1921.
From his first trip to Indochina brought back reconstructions of Angkor presented at the Colonial Expo of 1931.
Visited Spain, Egypt, India.
From 1948 to 1958, Maire was a drawing teacher in Hanoi; Dalat and Saigon.
Obtains a grant to go to Madagascar in 1959 with stopovers in Djibouti, Egypt and Mozambique.
He made his last trip in 1968 to Martinique.
André Maire is represented in numerous museums, Italy, Japan, Egypt, France.
The Sophie Marcellin Gallery, located in the Passage Verdeau in Paris, is a reference in the field of art. For more than 25 years, the gallery has presented the works of renowned artists, including André Maire, an exceptional painter. We invite you to discover its catalogue raisonné, a carefully selected collection of major works, ranging from drawings to paintings.
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