Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1904, in Culan, France.

Died in 2001, in Culan, France.

"I do not use a sketch, I paint directly on canvas without drawing first. Color is at the same time as the forms. Everything is looking in the format in the works ... Each work is a series of metamorphoses ... Truly a painting for me is the amount of times that incessant hard until I find myself before a body that I feel alive (...) There is no image of me in advance, no form I want a priori on a canvas. Just when I paint, there occurs an exchange, a conversation is between me and the table as it is organized. "

Biography

Maurice Estève was born in the French town of Culan (Département Cher) on May 2, 1904. In 1913 he moved to Paris with his parents, where he soon began his education as an artist. During his visits to the Louvre in the 1920s, Estève was particularly impressed by the painters Jean Fouquet and Paolo Uccello. Among the modern artists, Paul Cézanne had the greatest influence on Estève. Estève was largely self-educated, having only attended the free studio of the Colarossi academy in 1924, where he tried to constructively implement of his motifs according to the model of Georges Braques and Fernand Légers, thus creating a kind of Cubist Fauvism. Estèves extensive work was not limited to the genre of painting. He was also active in collage, textile design and murals. Estèves avoided the extrovert circles of Avant-garde but still beloned to the core of the artists who brought about the breakthrough of 'École de Paris' after 1945. Estèves took part in the Venice Biennale in 1954. His œuvre, just like the works of his art colleagues Riopelle and Bazaine, established a new pictoral 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. Maurice Estève died on June 29, 2001 at the age of 97 in his home town of Culan.

Solo shows

2006
Monotypes de Maurice Estève, 1963-1964, Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris, France
Maurice Estève 1904-2001, Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Monotypes, The Redfern Gallery, London, UK

2005
Maurice ESTEVE - Aquarelle, encres et fusains - Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Le Monotype, un forme de l'unique, Estève Museum, Bourges, France

2003
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Les étapes de la Création, Estève Museum, Bourges, France

2001
Soixante ans de dessins - Galerie Tendances, Paris, France

1998
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France

1994
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France

1990
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France

1987
Inauguration of the Estève Museum, Hôtel des Echevins, Bourges, France

1986
Retrospective, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1984
Tribute to Estève, Salon d'Autumne, Paris, France

1983
Proposition pour une Rétrospective, Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France; Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France

1982
Galerie Monique Prudhomme, Culan, France

1981
Touring show, Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France; Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg;
Musée de Metz, Metz, France

1978
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France

1977
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France

1974
Neue Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1973
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France

1965
Neue Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1961
Retrospective, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland;
Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany;
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Sweden

1960
Galerie Villand-Galanis, Paris, France

1956
Retrospective, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

1955
Galerie Galanis, Paris, France

1948
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France

1930
Galerie Yvangot, Paris, France

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Group shows

2007
Julius Bissier, Maurice Estève, Pablo Picasso - Neuerwerbungen - Galerie Art 204, Düsseldorf, Germany
Augenlust - Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda, Germany

2005
Une sélection d'artistes - Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Accrochage de groupe - une sélection d´artistes... - Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
"Kunst Unter Euro 5000" - Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany

2004
Kunst der Ecole de Paris nach 1950 - Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany

2002
Hommage à François Pluchart - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1984
An Overture - Michel Soskine Inc. - New York, New York, USA

1959
documenta 2 - Documenta, Cassel, France

1947
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

1946
Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1945
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France


1943
Galerie de France, Paris, France

1938
Galerie l'Equipe, Paris, France
Paris 1938, S.V. Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

1929 - 1938
Salon des Surindépendents, Paris, France

1937
Peinture Française, Svenska-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden

Publications

1999
Estève, Monique-Prudhomme. Estève, catalogue raisonné des collages, Éditions du musée de Bourges, France

1995
Robert Maillard, Maurice Estève, Neuchâtel, Éditions Ides et Calendes, Switzerland
Monique Prudhomme-Estève et Robert Maillard, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peinte de Maurice Estève, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, Switzerland

1993
Lydia Harambourg, Maurice Estève, dans L'École de Paris 1945-1965, Dictionnaire des peintres, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, Switzerland

1990
Monique Prudhomme-Estève, Collection du Musée Estève, Éditions des musées de la ville de Bourges, Bourges, France

1987
Peyré, Yves and Jean Leymarie. Estève, Editions RMN, Paris, France

1986
Estève, (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1986-1987), Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, France

1975
Hommage à Estève (numéro spécial de la revue xxe siècle), Édition Société internationale d'art du XXe siècle, Paris, France

1974
Joseph-Emile Muller, Estève, Fernand Hazan, Paris, France

1961
Joseph-Emile Muller, Estève, Fernand Hazan, Paris, France

1960
Frank Elgar, Estève, Dessins, Éditions Galanis, Paris, France

1956
Pierre Francastel, Estève, Éditions Galanis, Paris, France