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Original lithograph signed and numbered Marcel MOULY - Still life with teapot
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Original Lithograph signed and numbered 48/120
Arches vellum ragpaper
Dimensions : 76.5 x 59 cm (30 x 23 inches)
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Marcel Mouly
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In the 1950s, Marcel Mouly was one of those figurative artists trying to find their own path, drawing inspiration from Picasso's analytical cubism, Messagier's abstract landscapes, and Bram Van Velde's bold brushstrokes. It is by reconsidering space AND color that he succeeds, somewhere between Braque's still lifes and Matisse's Mediterranean landscapes, he invents a colorful and joyful, profound and human painting style. However, he is still just a good painter among others... "Discovered" by Opera Gallery, granting an exclusivity in lithography to Park West Gallery, suddenly Marcel MOULY is everywhere represented; suddenly Marcel MOULY is the new reference, the new sensation! Knowing how to distill his work sparingly, knowing not to disappoint all those who have fallen in love with his happy landscapes, he sees his value skyrocket over the years, regularly being the only living artist to have each of his works sold at auction. He passed away on the night of January 6th to 7th, 2008, just before his 90th birthday, leaving his works to soar even higher under the hammer of auctioneers.
Biography of Marcel Mouly
Marcel Mouly
Marcel Mouly was born in 1918, in Paris. Coming from a modest background, his father was a blacksmith, he drew at a very young age, out of pleasure, out of passion. It was as an apprentice, at the age of 13, that he moved to Normandy in the early 1930s, and it was there that he made his first real drawings.
His military service and the general mobilization that followed brought him to the Cotentin peninsula, where he fell seriously ill in the winter of 1939. After recovering, he joined Cherbourg, before a leave brought him back to Paris. And it was while he was in the Capital that the French capitulation was signed.
Freed from his military duties, he returned to his drawings. These led him to the beaches of Houlagte in 1942 where he was arrested by the Gestapo, due to being in a sensitive area, and spent three months in secret at the Fresnes prison. Released, drawing became his reason for living.
It was the post-war years that marked the true beginnings of Marcel Mouly's career. He was thirty years old and was accepted at the Salon d'Automne, then at the Salon de Mai where he exhibited alongside the greatest artists of the time: Matisse, Picasso, Léger, Pignon (who was one of his friends), Manessier, Bazaine.
In 1946, he moved to La Ruche, met Picasso and Brancusi, and developed (through hard work) a painting that draws on the contributions of Cubism (perfect composition and deconstruction of perspective), the forces of Fauvism à la Matisse (impact of colors that juxtapose and sing together), and a synthesis of realism and abstraction.
Noticed by Opera Gallery, the 1970s saw him enter the very exclusive circle of painters exhibiting all over the world. The 1980s would take him even higher: American recognition that propelled him into the pantheon of artists whose works are sold on the evening of the opening...
His collaboration, for lithographs, with Park West Gallery, made him one of the most sought-after and well-known artists across the Atlantic, while France still lagged behind in recognizing the unique talent of this prodigious son.
He passed away on the eve of his 90th year, on January 7, 2008.
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