Surrealist School Maurice Tirmarche

Surrealist school watercolor by Maurice Tirmarche watercolor signed right format with frame 46cm x 39cm format without frame 32cm x 24cm Maurice TIRMARCHE (1909-1978) Born May 30, 1909 in Clermont-Ferrand (63). His life is surrounded by mystery, died April 20, 1978 in Courbevoie (92) at the age of 68 (act n ° 233). Self-taught painter, of fantastic expression, surrealist in his first period then moves towards Op Art and rubs shoulders with the legends of this movement, Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely etc… He exhibits between 1962 and 1972, in Rouen, at the Galerie Actuel in Toulouse, Galerie Davidson in Tours, Galerie Argos in Nantes etc… The CNAC acquires one of his works in 1972 as well as the national fund of contemporary art (Paris) a painting entitled: The visitors (Inventory number 31002). Preface to his exhibitions, Maurice SERULLAZ (1914-1997) Chief curator at the Louvre Museum, said in particular of his works: "the fantastic is the domain of his painting, all phantasmagoria and dreams. This results in a grandiose cosmic universe.... in a mirage with colorful harmonies