Max Papart Biography
Max Papart (1911 - 1994) was born in Marseille in 1911. He briefly attended the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, preferring to teach himself to paint. He settled in Paris in 1936, working as an artisan printer. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and made his first aquatint etchings. Participates in several collective exhibitions. His first personal exhibitions were organized by the Bureau Gallery in Paris in 1938, then by the Sébire Gallery in Marseille in 1946. Exempt during the Second World War, he took refuge in his hometown, where he attended the School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Auzias. Actively participates in the liberation of Marseille. After the war he met Prévert, Ribemont-Dessaignes and other poets whose works he illustrated. He regularly exhibits his works in Salons (Salon de Mai, Peintres témoins de leur temps, etc.), in museums and galleries. In the second half of the 1950s he met César, Henri Goetz, Jean Michel Atlan, James Coignard, Antoni Clavé, artists who made the south of France their home. Max Papart evolves from a post-cubist language towards an expression that borrows some plastic syntheses from abstraction. Lithographs, engravings, etchings, paintings, he often uses mixed techniques and collage techniques which he manages with skill.
