Talk:Maurice Boitel

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==Strength==

According to the catalogues of the french parisian "Salons" from 1945, the japanese television art office, and the Benezit dictionnary, which has been the most representative artists dictionnary in France for 1945, Maurice Boitel is one of the few most notorious figurative painters of the after-WWII period.

He received the highest awards decreed by his colleagues, moreover figurative or abstract artists and galleries sold many of its paintings in France but also in USA, UK, Japan, Germany.

-The article of wikipedia is very well documentated with many details and the bibliography allows the reader to find the different sources of the article.

==Weakness==

Although he lived only by selling his paintings and had many exhibitions in the main galleries of Paris and elsewhere, Maurice Boitel does not look like an official painter of the successive governments of the 5th republic and did not paint according to the will of the civil servants of these governments. As not being an official artist, his paintings were no more baught by french State after 1963. Appreciated only by connoisseurs and artists after 1963, he seams to have been obliged to sell a great part of his paintings in foreign countries.

- May-be, the article does not show enough this mind of independance of this painter, which also appears during the war, when, violating the law, he hid Jews in his studio, and after, when he refused to be decorated and nominated professor at the superior School of Fine Art by government of the 5th republic.

Burgundu 14:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 14:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 23:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)