Modern Art + Design presents: Maurice Estève
Maurice Estève
”Le Guetteur” – The lookout
Bukowskis presents Maurice Estève ”Le Guetteur” at the Modern Art + Design auction the 17th and 18th of May.
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In 1913, Maurice Estève moved with his parents to Paris, where he soon began his artistic career. Whilst visiting the Louvre in the 1920s he was particularly impressed by old masters such as Jean Fouquet and Paolo Uccello, but also by some of the pioneers of modernity, such as Paul Cèzanne, Fernand Legér and Georges Braque. Estève was mostly self-taught and only ever participated (in 1924) in the free teaching at the Acadèmie Colarossi.
› Signed and dated bottom right Estéve 51 and signed verso Esteve / 51 / No 989. Canvas 50.5 x 61.5 cm. Estimate 1 000 000 – 1 200 000 SEK.
Estève worked in a palette of warm and vibrating colours. From 1947 onwards he stopped depicting anything with a direct correlation to real forms or imagery. Instead his compositions merged into a pattern that had its own unique rhythm, clarity and purity.
During the 1950s Estève stood out as a representative of the French branch of Tachisme (the name of the lyrical abstract spot painting that Georges Mathieu in particular employed). The style depicted colour and form in almost poetical expressions.
“I experience more intensely the nature in which I am immersed by the shapes I rediscover than the world in which I live”
Maurice Estève
With the painting in the auction, Le Guetteur (The Lookout) from 1951, Estève has just abandoned figurative painting, depicting real objects, and is instead painting without a premeditated subject in mind, filling the canvas with his own invented forms. Le Guetteur encompasses a wide variety of colours, each one more alive than the other – blue opaline, red, yellow, green and purple are set in contrast with the painting’s darker sections.
The work will be sold at the Modern Art + Design auction on May 17th – 18th.
Viewing May 12th – 16th, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Auction Live May 17th – 18th, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.
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