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Large Abstract Painting By Maurice Mante, Dated 1985, 203 X 103 Cm
A very large abstract painting, oil on canvas, by Maurice Mante, painted in 1985.
Predominantly pink, gray, and white, this painting makes a strong impression and could be displayed on a very large wall, or above an antique piece of furniture, as we have shown it in our gallery.
Framed in whitewashed wooden strips in the style of a shadow box frame.
In very good condition. Signed M. Mante in the lower left corner.
Due to its size, delivery is by arrangement only; please contact me with your city for a quote.
Maurice Mante (1923-1999), an artist from Limoges, was passionate about drawing from a very young age. He pursued his art alongside his professional activities. He worked for a time at the SNCF (French National Railway Company), then until his retirement as a window dresser and decorator at the Nouvelles Galeries department store. Despite everything, he produced a significant body of work that revealed a multifaceted talent: watercolors, sketches, oil paintings, sculptures, encaustic painting, collage... He enrolled in evening classes at the School of Decorative Arts in Limoges, where he had a life-changing encounter: his teacher, Jean Virolle, whom he considered his "spiritual father" and whose advice he constantly sought and followed. They maintained a correspondence until 1948, the year of Virolle's death. The works preserved in the municipal archives include sketches, self-portraits, and portraits of his family and friends. There are many watercolor landscapes of Limoges and the Limousin region, as well as drawings from his holidays. In the early 1960s, Maurice Mante experimented with Cubism, then quickly moved towards abstraction, which became his preferred style. He was part of the "Group of Nine" in Montluçon, alongside Alain Bisson, who said of him [...] "Man was within the artist, circling with him on the surface of the paintings [...] engraving the material like a prehistoric man engraving a cave wall." Maurice Mante was not interested in fame. However, he exhibited several times in Limoges galleries, often out of friendship for the gallery owners, notably at Simone Nathan-Asher's Galerie 39 A. "I was impressed by the scope of his work, its strength, its quality, its homogeneity within its diversity."
Predominantly pink, gray, and white, this painting makes a strong impression and could be displayed on a very large wall, or above an antique piece of furniture, as we have shown it in our gallery.
Framed in whitewashed wooden strips in the style of a shadow box frame.
In very good condition. Signed M. Mante in the lower left corner.
Due to its size, delivery is by arrangement only; please contact me with your city for a quote.
Maurice Mante (1923-1999), an artist from Limoges, was passionate about drawing from a very young age. He pursued his art alongside his professional activities. He worked for a time at the SNCF (French National Railway Company), then until his retirement as a window dresser and decorator at the Nouvelles Galeries department store. Despite everything, he produced a significant body of work that revealed a multifaceted talent: watercolors, sketches, oil paintings, sculptures, encaustic painting, collage... He enrolled in evening classes at the School of Decorative Arts in Limoges, where he had a life-changing encounter: his teacher, Jean Virolle, whom he considered his "spiritual father" and whose advice he constantly sought and followed. They maintained a correspondence until 1948, the year of Virolle's death. The works preserved in the municipal archives include sketches, self-portraits, and portraits of his family and friends. There are many watercolor landscapes of Limoges and the Limousin region, as well as drawings from his holidays. In the early 1960s, Maurice Mante experimented with Cubism, then quickly moved towards abstraction, which became his preferred style. He was part of the "Group of Nine" in Montluçon, alongside Alain Bisson, who said of him [...] "Man was within the artist, circling with him on the surface of the paintings [...] engraving the material like a prehistoric man engraving a cave wall." Maurice Mante was not interested in fame. However, he exhibited several times in Limoges galleries, often out of friendship for the gallery owners, notably at Simone Nathan-Asher's Galerie 39 A. "I was impressed by the scope of his work, its strength, its quality, its homogeneity within its diversity."
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