(1904-2001) 1904 Estève wird in Culan am 2. Mai geboren. Er lebt bis zum achten Lebensjahr bei seinen Großeltern.
1913 Er zieht zu seinen Eltern nach Paris. Geht regelmäßig ins Louvre, wo ihn Arbeiten von Courbet, Delacroix, Chardin und "La batai
(1904-2001) 1904 Estève wird in Culan am 2. Mai geboren. Er lebt bis zum achten Lebensjahr bei seinen Großeltern.
1913 Er zieht zu seinen Eltern nach Paris. Geht regelmäßig ins Louvre, wo ihn Arbeiten von Courbet, Delacroix, Chardin und "La bataille de San-Romano" von Paolo Ucello prägen.
1914 Nach Ausbruch des Krieges kehrt er nach Culan zurück.
1915 Erste Anfänge des Zeichnens und Schreibens.
1918 Er kehrt nach Paris zurück und beginnt eine Lehre im technischen Zeichnen.
1923 Er verbringt ein Jahr in Barcelona, wo er für ein Designstudio arbeitet.
1924 Kehrt nach Paris zurück, wo er insbesondere das Werk der "Primitiven" im Louvre und von Cézanne studiert. Besucht häufiger das Atelier in der Académie Colarossi auf dem Montparnasse.
1927 Unter dem Einfluß der Surrealisten wendet er sich davon ab, direkte Studien der Natur zu malen.
1929–38 Er stellt im "Salon des Surindépendants" aus.
1936 Beeinflußt durch die Ereignisse im Bürgerkrieg in Spanien, entstehen expressionistisch geprägte Arbeiten.
1937 Neben Sonia und Robert Delaunay ist er Mitverantwortlicher für die Dekoration der Pavillions der Weltausstellung in Paris.
1940 Er wird in den 2. Weltkrieg eingezogen. Während dieser Zeit beeindrucken ihn Zeichnungen mit Farbe kombiniert.
1950 Zeichnungen mit Wasserfarben in größeren Formaten entstehen.
1952 Die ersten Farblithographien entstehen im Atelier Clot, ab 1954 im Atelier Desjobert und ab 1955 bei Fernand Mourlot.
1955 Estève verbringt, wie in den folgenden Jahren, die Sommer in Culan, wo Aquarelle, Kohlezeichnungen und Collagen entstehen.
1957 Er erhält den Auftrag für die Verglasung der Kirche Berlincourt in der Schweiz.
1963 Es entstehen eine Reihe von Monotypien.
1987 Im restaurierten Hotel "Des Echevins" in Bourges wird das Estève Museum eröffnet.
2001 Estève stirbt am 27. Juni in Paris.
In: http://www.kunstmarkt.com/pagesprz/est_ve_maurice/_i77416_d82439_r77430-/show_praesenz.html?&words=%20Est%E8ve%2C+Maurice#Biographie * * * * * Maurice Estève Biography
1904 Born 2nd May in Culan, in the Cher, the Centre region of France
1913 While visiting his parents in Paris he goes to the Louvre of his own volition
1914 - 1918 Spends WWI in country with his grandparents
1918 Starts living in Paris. His father believes that the best future for his son is to learn a skilled trade, and so apprentices him, first to a typographer, then to a maker of modern furniture. With great difficulty Estève studies drawing at evening classes run by the City of Paris
1923 Runs textile design studio in Barcelona after violent rows with father about his chosen vocation
1924 Returns to Paris and attends the open studio at Colarossi Academy in Montparnasse, and spends time in Louvre studying the work of the Primitives. He develops a Passion for Cézanne, and meets Camille Richez, with whom he lives until her death in 1965
1928 He falls under the influence of surrealism. Especially Giorgio de Chirico, and gradually abandons working from life
1929 Takes part in the 'Salon des Surindépendants' and shows there regularly until 1938. Struggles to make a living, and paints when he has a little money
1930 Leaves his studio in his grandfather's home in rue de Fouarre, and rents a studio owned by the City of Paris, at Porte de Vanves. Has first one man show in November, at Galerie Yvangot in Paris, showing 26 paintings from the period 1928-1930
1937 On the advice of Braque, Gösta Olson, Director of the Svensk-Franska Konstgallerist in Stockholm, invites Estève to take part in an exhibition 'Peinture Française' in March, alongside Braque, Matisse, Picasso, Juan Gris and Léger. The Göteborg Konstmuseum buys 'La Femme au Bain de Pieds' (1933)
1937 He is also invited by Jacques Villon to the 22nd exhibition of the group ' Artistes de ce temps' at the Petit Palais in Paris, where the work of Lipchitz, Georg, Desnoyer and Adam is also shown. He assists in the execution of large murals by Robert and Sonia Delauney for the Railways and Aviation pavilions at the Paris International Exhibition. During the work a small exhibition is held in a disused garage, in honour of a visit by Henri Matisse, who notices Estève's canvases
1938 André Lhote picks out Estève's work in a review of a group exhibition at the Galerie l'Equipe. Also takes part in 'Paris 1938' at the S.V. Gallery in Prague, with Beaudin, Borès, Delauney, Léger, Lurçat, and Masson
1939 Moves to studio in rue Lepic, Montmartre, after being evicted from his studio for not paying the rent. Called up and goes to Brétigny
1940 Demobilised in Auch
1941 Meets Louis Carré, who buys several paintings from him
1942 Give exclusivity to Galerie Louis Carré
1945 Meets Henri Laurens
1946 First meets Fernand Léger
1952 Starts making colour lithographs with 'Jour de fête' at l'Atelier Clot, a technique that he continues to explore at l'Atelier Desjobert in 1954, and, from 1955, at lAtelier Fernand Moulot
1955 Leaves Montmartre for a studio in VI ème arrondisement, not far from Odéon. Starts using one room at his childhood house in Culan as a studio. After his father's death he goes there to work each summer
1956 Editions Galanis produces first monograph, by Pierre Francastel
1957 Designs stained glass window for the church in Berlincourt, in the Swiss Jura
1963 Designs tapestries for I. Iynedjian, in Lausanne
1965 Awarded the 'Grand Prix National des Arts'. To avoid the award ceremony he leaves immediately for Culan
1974 Monograph by Joseph-Emile Muller is published by Editions Fernand Hazan, Paris, in the series 'Ateliers d'Aujord'hui'
1982 Donates a large number of his works, and an association is set up to find a suitable home for them
1983 Marries Monique Prudhomme, whom he met in 1967 in Culan, in the craft workshop she set up
1985 The city of Bourges agrees to retore the Hôtel des Echevins and make it into the Estève Museum
1986 Issue of a French postage stamp showing a reproduction of 'Skibet' (1979)
1987 Inauguration of Estève Museum
1995 Publication of catalogue raisonné
2001 Dies in Culan, 26th June
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Musée des Beaux Arts, Liège, Belgium
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
Musée Estève, Bourges, France
Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Metz, France
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa de Paris, Paris, France
Musée-Fondation Françoise et Souza Desnoyer, Saint-Cyprien, France.
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano, Italy.
Musée de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Göteborg Kunstmuseum, Sweden
Fondation Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, Switzerland
Tate Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, New York, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Monotypes de Maurice Estève, 1963-1964, Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris (solo)
2006 Maurice Estève 1904-2001, Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Monotypes, The Redfern Gallery. London (solo)
2005 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
2005 Le Monotype, un forme de l'unique, Estève Mueum, Bourges (solo)
2003 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
2003 Lés étapes de la Creation, Estève Museum, Bourges (solo)
2002 FIAC with Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
2001 Galarie Tendances, Paris (solo)
1998 Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1994 Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1992 FIAC with Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1990 Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1987 Inaugeration of the Estève Museum, Hôtel des Echevins, Bourges (solo)
1986 Retrospective, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris. Toured Oslo and Tübiden (solo)
1984 Tribute to Estève, Salon d'Autumne, Paris (solo)
1983 Proposition pour une Rétrospective, Maison de la Culture, Bourges. Tours to Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux (solo)
1982 Galerie Monique Prudhomme, Culan (solo)
1981 Touring show, Musée Cantini, Marseilles, Musée de l'Etat, Luxembourg, and Musée de Metz, Metz (solo)
1978 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
1977 Galerie Claue Bernard, Paris (solo)
1974 Neue Galerie, Zurich (solo)
1973 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
1965 Neue Galerie, Zurich (solo)
1961 Retrospective, Kunsthalle, Basel. Tours to Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (solo)
1960 Galerie Villand-Galanis, Paris (solo)
1956 Retrospective, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (solo)
1955 Galerie Galanis, Paris (solo)
1948 Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1947 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
1946 Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam.
1945 Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
1943 Galerie de France, Paris.
1938 Salon des Surindépendents
1938 Galerie l'Equipe, Paris
1938 Paris 1938, S.V. Gallery, Prague.
1937 Salon des Surindépendents
1937 Peinture Française, Svenska-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
1936 Salon des Surindépendents
1935 Salon des Surindépendents
1934 Salon des Surindépendents
1933 Salon des Surindépendents
1932 Salon des Surindépendents
1931 Salon des Surindépendents
1930 Salon des Surindépendents
1930 Galerie Yvangot, Paris (solo)
1929 Salon des Surindépendents In: http://www.artnet.com/artist/154059/maurice-esteve.html
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