Élisée Maclet

Élisée Maclet (born April 12, 1881 in Lihons , † August 23, 1962 in Paris ) was a French painter.

Life

Élisée Maclet was the son of a gardener. His artistic talent was recognized in 1892 by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , who wanted to train the boy, but his father refused. Despite paternal opposition, Maclet went to Montmartre and began painting, making a living doing casual work. He made the acquaintance of Maurice Utrillo and the art dealer Charles Dosbourg bought Maclet's first works. During the First World War he worked in a military hospital. In 1918, at the suggestion of Francis Carco , he went to Dieppe for a year to broaden his horizons. Returning to Paris he made the acquaintance of Colette and Max Jacob . In 1923 he went to southern France on behalf of the Austrian manufacturer Baron von Frey, and in 1928 to Corsica . In 1929 he lived and worked in Brittany for about two years . He then worked in Picardy and five years later returned to Paris for good. In 1945 Maclet presented his work in the Norvins gallery in Paris . After another exhibition in the Parisian gallery Nicolas Poussin in 1957, the prices of his works began to rise continuously.

His works are assigned to naive painting .

literature

• Martine and Bertrand Willot: Élisée Maclet. Le dernier Montmartrois . Paris 2006, ISBN 2-913639-06-2 .
• Maclet, Élisée. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.

Web links

• Élisée Maclet. In: artnet , with pictures of Maclet's work.