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Maurice André (1914-85, France) settled in Aubusson for the duration of the second world war. A founding member of the group “Tapisserie de France" and a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie), he developed a personal style, different from that of Lurçat, characterised by rigorous, cubist-influenced flat areas of colour, often using a limited palette ; he received large-scale public commissions for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (“L'Europe unie dans le Travail et la Paix") or for the French pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958 (“La Technique moderne au service de l'Homme"). Gradually (as with Wogensky and Prassinos,…) his style evolved towards more abstraction, firstly lyrical and then more and more geometric, in a way very similar to Matégot.

Characteristic of André's final period, the geometric shapes and flat areas of colour are tempered by hatching, stripes and shading.


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Sculpture, Étimcelle, Maurice André

Étimcelle

Maurice André

Sculpture - 55.1 x 80.7 x 0.4 inch

$38,000

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Maurice André (1914-85, France) settled in Aubusson for the duration of the second world war. A founding member of the group “Tapisserie de France" and a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie), he developed a personal style, different from that of Lurçat, characterised by rigorous, cubist-influenced flat areas of colour, often using a limited palette ; he received large-scale public commissions for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (“L'Europe unie dans le Travail et la Paix") or for the French pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958 (“La Technique moderne au service de l'Homme"). Gradually (as with Wogensky and Prassinos,…) his style evolved towards more abstraction, firstly lyrical and then more and more geometric, in a way very similar to Matégot.

Characteristic of André's final period, the geometric shapes and flat areas of colour are tempered by hatching, stripes and shading.

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When was Maurice André born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1914