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Maurice-Élie Sarthou Galerie Marcel Guiot poster
The Maurice-Élie Sarthou Galerie Marcel Guiot poster is an original vintage exhibition poster dating to 1959. Galerie Marcel Guiot was a commercial art gallery in Paris in the early to mid 20th century who specialised in modern French artists including Maurice-Élie Sarthou, Andre Brasilier, Andre Lhote, Francois Desnoyer and others – our poster was printed to publicise an exhibition by Sarthou.
Maurice-Élie Sarthou biography
Maurice-Élie Sarthou (1911-1999) was born in Bayonne, France on 15th January 1911.
Orphaned as a result of his father’s death during the First World War , Sarthou was brought up by his mother and grandfather in Montpellier. Leaving school, in 1927, he gained a place to study architecture at the Beaux Arts. After a year, he persuaded his family to let him study painting instead. He started his artistic studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, then in 1930, he won a scholarship to study in Paris.
In 1943, he became a member of the Society of Independent Artists in Bordeaux, in 1949, he won the Prix Drouant and was invited to exhibit at Salon May. This was his first Parisian exhibition showing two paintings: Still Life and Open Window. He continued to exhibit in at the Salon May until 1963. Sarthou relocated to Paris in 1950, where he was appointed professor of drawing at the Lycée Henri-IV , which allowed him to exhibit in the salons of the capital and to be more recognized.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac, whom he met in 1951 at the Salon de May, introduced him to the Parisian art dealer Marcel Guiot, with whom he exhibited regularly from 1955.
Maurice-Élie Sarthou exhibitions
Sarthou participated in numerous Exhibitions: Salon de Mai; Salon d’Automne which paid him special homagein 1979. In 1952, Sarthou left for the Basque coast and the Arcachon basin (1937-1950), favouring Languedoc and Provence. He settled at Sète.
In the 1960s Sarthou worked extensively in the South of France, exhibiting in Nice, Arles and elsewhere. In 1976, Sarthou was part of the French delegation of artists travelling to Japan.
Sarthou worked with a passion for representing the four natural elements, water, earth, sky and fire and the relationship of the visual to the inner experience. He is considered to be a proponent of lyrical abstraction
Sarthou died at the age of 88 in 1999; He is buried in Sete cemetery.
Maurice-Élie Sarthou public collections
Sarthou’s work can be found in the collections of the Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris, National Library of France, Paris, National Museum of Art Luxembourg, Museum of Art Geneva, Stanford University, Princeton University, Fabre Museum Montpellier. Toulouse-Lautrec Museum Albi, Reattu Museum Arles and the Paul-Valery Museum in Sete.
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