ANDRÉ MAIRE
Härb Nuti are proud to offer for sale a selection of drawings by travelling artist André Maire (Paris 1898–1984 Paris). The drawings record Maire’s time spent in Cambodia and Madagascar and originate directly from the artist’s estate.
Having first travelled to Indochina while serving in the French Army, Maire returned there in 1948 and worked as an art teacher. The seven Visions of Angkor bring together architectural and sculptural elements of the ruined temples he visited, amalgamated with the country’s exuberant vegetation. The effigies of Buddha, Vishnu and Ganesha that populate his scenes were no longer in situ but Maire was able to study them at the museum of Phnom Penh and in the repository of Siem Reap, in north western Cambodia. Due to the mounting political tensions in Indochina, Maire returned to Paris in 1958, only to depart again the following year for Madagascar, thanks to a bursary from the Société des Beaux-Arts de la France d’outre-mer. During a year-long stay, Maire documented the island’s daily life in his vigorous drawings, including our group of five Women of Madagascar.
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Visions of Angkor
Ganesha and Buddha, Angkor
Signed and dated, lower right, André / Maire / 1954
Charcoal
657 x 504 mm
Literature
S. Thierry (ed.), Angkor. Le Cambodge d’André Maire, Paris, 2005, p. 195, illustrated
Three Buddhas
Signed and dated, lower left, André Maire / 1954
Charcoal
654 x 507 mm
Literature
S. Thierry (ed.), Angkor. Le Cambodge d’André Maire, Paris, 2005, pp. 128-29, illustrated
Head of Buddha, a Baphuon Style female Torso and Two Figures, Angkor
Signed and dated, bottom margin, André / Maire / 1953
Charcoal, red chalk
655 x 504 mm
Buddha, a Baphuon Style female Torso and an Apsara, Angkor
Signed and dated, lower left, André Maire / 1957
Charcoal
648 x 499 mm
Literature
S. Thierry (ed.), Angkor. Le Cambodge d’André Maire, Paris, 2005, pp. 140-41, illustrated
Buddha, Angkor
Signed and dated, lower left, André / Maire / 1955
Charcoal
654 x 505 mm
Ganesha and Vishnu, Angkor
Signed and dated, lower right, André / Maire/ 1953
Charcoal
655 x 502 mm
Buddha Vishnu and a Snake, Angkor
Signed and dated, lower right, André / Maire/ 1953
Charcoal, coloured chalks
655 x 505 mm
Literature
L. Harscoët-Maire, Voyages d’André Maire (1898-1984). Visions humanistes d’André Maire, peintre voyageur, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, 2017, p. 83, illustrated
Exhibitions
Roubaix, La Piscine–Musée d’Art e d’Industrie, and Beauvais, Musée départemental de l’Oise, André Maire (1898-1984), L’itinéraire décoratif d’un peintre voyageur (catalogue by L. Harscoët-Maire et al.), pp. 150-51, fig. 91
Women of Madagascar
A Malgache reclining with a Child holding a Fruit
Signed and dated, lower right, André Maire / 1959
Charcoal, pastel
504 x 650 mm
A Malgache resting, with a large Shell
Signed and dated, lower right, André / Maire 1959
Charcoal, pastel
503 x 650 mm
A Malgache seated on the floor, looking up
Signed, upper right, André Maire
Charcoal, pastel
450 x 584 mm
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A Malgache seated, with Turtles
Executed in 1959
Charcoal, pastel
454 x 583 mm
Sold to a private collection
A Malgache seen from behind, with Shells
Signed and dated, centre right, André / Maire / 1959
Charcoal, pastel
580 x 450 mm
A Malgache and her Child
Signed and dated, lower right, André Maire / 1959
Charcoal, pastel
652 x 497 mm
Literature
E. Bréon (ed.), André Maire peintre voyageur 1898-1984, Paris, 2000, p. 185, illustrated
L. Harscoët-Maire, Voyages d’André Maire (1898-1984). Visions humanistes d’André Maire, peintre voyageur, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, 2017, p. 124, illustrated
Sold to a private collection