Maurice Boitel

Maurice Boitel (born July 31 , 1919 ) is a French Painter .

ARTISTIC LIFE

Maurice Boitel was born in Tillières-sur-Avre , Eure '' Departement '', in Normandy , from a picard lawyer, member of the saint Francis third order, and from a parisian mother, of burgundian ascent; Until the age of twelve, Maurice Boitel lived in Burgundy at Gevrey-Chambertin . In this beautiful province, his art reflected his major love of nature, and also the feeling of joie de vivre expressed in his works.

Maurice Boitel studied at the Fine Arts schools of Boulogne-sur-Mer and of Amiens , cities where his parents lived for a few years. Then his family came back to Burgundy, at Nuits-Saint-Georges and he studied at the fine arts academy of Dijon before fighting in a mountain light infantry platoon at the beginning of WW2, even after the truce.

Demobbed, he successfully sat the competitive examination to enter the National Academy of Fine Arts École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux Arts . In 1942 and 1943, during the most difficult period of the German occupation, in his studio located in the center of Paris, he hid Jewish refugees, among them the journalist Henry Jelinek .

A great part of his paintings between 1942 and 1946, were bought by a British collector and are still in London.

In 1946, he received the Abd-el-Tif Prize which enabled him to remain for two years in Algiers with Marie-Lucie, his wife, and his son. On his return from Algeria , he exhibited in Paris in the exhibitions of the Young Painters, Jeune Peinture , Independent Artists, Salon Des Indépendants , the Salon D'Automne ,and after, in the Salon Du Dessin Et De La Peinture à L'eau (drawing and water painting), the Salon Des Artistes Français , Terre Latine (Latin land), the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, Société Nationale Des Beaux Arts , and with Comparisons, Salon "Comparaisons" ; until 2004, he was a member of these two last societies committees.

In 1949, he presented an individual exhibition of his paintings of Algeria in the Gallery of the Elysée, Faubourg Saint-Honoré , at that time the center of the European art trade.

In 1951, new individual exhibition in this same gallery; he also took part in a group exhibition in the Suillerot Gallery and topic exhibition, chaired by the producer Jacques Hébertot, within the framework of the Association of the Amateurs of painting.

In 1958, he received the Antral award from the Town of Paris, and he had an individual exhibition in the Gallery Rene Drouet, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where he presented biennial individual exhibitions for twenty years.

During the fifties, he was commissioned to decorate two educational state establishments in Montreuil-sous-bois (Maximilien de Robespierre school) and Montgeron (J.-C. Gatineau school). He painted single-handedly all the frescoes on the classroom walls. In order to make the ceramics himself, he had a kiln built in his own studio.

In 1963, the Puvis De Chavannes award, decreed by the National Society of Fine Arts, enabled him to exhibit all of his works at the Museum of Modern art of Paris.

In 1966, he received the Francis Smith Award which offers a stay in Portugal ( Peniche , Obidos ).

In 1968, he receives the French Artists Gold Medal and the Academy of Fine Arts decrees the Bastien Lepage Prize to him.

In 1980, the Institute of France gave him the Dumas-Milliers award. ---Different other awards come to crown his career of painter, among whom the Grand Prix of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne (1974), the Prize Roger Deverin watercolour decided by the Taylor Foundation (1984).

Boulogne-sur-Mer

Saint-Maur-des-fossés

Montbard

Montreuil-sur-mer

In 1990, the ''Salon d'Automne'' of Paris voted him a homage in three halls of the Palais of Paris.

In 1999, President Jean Monneret and the Committee of the ''Salon des Indépendants'' of Paris invited him to present a retrospective of his works.

In 2003, the members of the National Society of Fine Arts (''Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts'') voted the Gold Medal to him.

Rosny-sous-Bois

Wimereux

Art connoisseurs from Great Britain, United States , Brazil, Iran, Japan, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Mexico, etc, acquired many paintings, as well as the French State and the Town of Paris.

Some of his works may be seen in museums of the following towns: Dijon , St-Maur des fossés, Sceaux , Valence , Algiers , Constantine , Bejaïa in particular and also in the town council hall of Paris and in French embassies around the world.

Among his closest friends are the painter artists Daniel Du Janerand , Gabriel Deschamps , Louis Vuillermoz , Pierre-Henry , André Vignoles , Pierre Gaillardot , Rodolphe Caillaux , Jean-Pierre Alaux , Bernard Buffet , André Hambourg , Emilio Grau Sala , Jean Carzou , Paul Collomb and the two brothers Ramon and Antoni Pitxot .

Family links: Henri Corblin (Corblin Burton) , Albert Besson ( Académie De Médecine ), Olivier Lazzarotti ( Université D'Amiens ).

Present group exhibition:

In april and may 2006: "Majestueux Maghreb " in the Danielle Bourdette-Gorzkowski gallery, quai Saint-Etienne in Honfleur (14600), Normandy .

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