MACLET Elisee ( 1881 - 1962 )
Paris, seen from Montmartre, the Sacre Coeur seen from the rue St Rustique.
Oil on cardboard signed lower left.
61 x 46 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Literature: Benezit - Elisee Maclet by M. Guicheteau and J. Cottel - Maclet the last Montmartre by Martine and Bertrand Willot - Dictionary of Montmartre painters by Andre Roussard -
MACLET Elisee, Born on April 12, 1881 in Lyons-en-Santerre, Died on August 23, 1962 in ParisPainter of landscapes, urban landscapes.
It was an abbot, a Sunday painter, who taught him some rudiments of oil painting. He came to settle in Montmartre in 1906. The writers Colette, Francis Carco, and other personalities, an American merchant took an interest in him. Max Jacob wrote about him. In 1933 he had to be interned and never fully recovered from his mental disorders. He exhibited in Paris in 1960. He painted the typical landscapes of the Butte de Montmartre, Gill's Rabbit, Moulin de La Galette, Mimi Pinson's House before Utrillo took them as themes. After the First World War, his views of Paris brought him great success. Around 1920, a wealthy amateur gave him the means to stay for a long time in the south of France, from where he brought back landscapes whose wonder at the Mediterranean nature they translated, which sometimes brought up the name of Matisse.
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