Mayor André (1898-1984) Market In Madagascar

MAIRE André (1898-1984)
Market in Madagascar
Black and burnt red chalk
41 x 32 cm
Signed lower right and dated 1959

French painter, studied at the School of Fine Arts in the studio of André Devambez. At 16, he successively lost his entire family and his in-laws took a prominent place in his life by marrying the daughter Irène, of Emile Bernard with whom he studied painting. The couple traveled to Italy and settled in Venice in 1921 From his first trip to Indochina he brought back reconstructions of Angkor presented at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931; He visited Spain, Egypt and India from 1948 to 1958. Maire was a drawing teacher in Hanoi, Dalat and Saigon. He received a scholarship to go to Madagascar in 1959 with stops in Djibouti, Egypt and Mozambique. He made his last trip in 1968 to Martinique.
André Maire's works are presented in many museums: Italy, Japan, Egypt... France: musée du quai Branly, musée des années 30 in Boulogne Billancourt...