MAX PAPART (1911-1994)

Drawing and Collage on Paper

Signed & Dated, 1957

65.00 cm wide   49.00 cm high

25.59 inches wide  19.29 inches high

Max Papart was a painter and printmaker. He was born in Marseille in 1911, and after a short period of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Marseille, travelled to Paris in 1938, where he learnt the technique of classic engraving.

He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Independents in Paris, and between 1945 and 1950, exhibited throughout the South of France. He had one-man exhibitions in Paris in 1953, 1960, 1965, and 1967, and participated in many group exhibitions throughout his life.

During the 1950’s Max Papart worked in a decorative post-cubist style, but still with an element of realism. Later he moved away to more abstract images. It has been said that Max Papart does not ‘paint’, he ‘composes’, his images coming together in a symphony of line, shape and colour, and he himself compared the process of painting to that of music, requiring balance, form, structure and harmony.
Max Papart is equally known for his paintings, prints and collages, as well as many book illustrations. He died in 1994.

Max Papart’s paintings can be found in many museums worldwide


Musee d’Art Moderne - Paris
Musee Cantini - Marseille
Fondation Maeght - St Paul de Vence
Museum of Menton
Victoria and Albert Museum - London
Museum of Modern Art - Miami
Phoenix Art Museum - Arizona
Museum of Art - Indianapolis
Museum of Art - New Orleans
Museum of Art - San Diego
Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale
Israel Museum – Jerusalem

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