Édouard Mac'Avoy (1905-1991), French painter, renowned 20th-century portraitist, student of the Académie Julian and founder of the Salon Comparaisons. Signed lithographs and prints.
Édouard Mac'Avoy (1905-1991) is one of the great French portraitists of the 20th century. A painter of the human figure, he captured on canvas the features of numerous writers, artists, and personalities of his time, with a keen sense of character and great drawing precision.
Born in Caudéran, near Bordeaux, on January 25, 1905, Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy descended from an Irish family settled in France in the 17th century. After studying in Switzerland, he hesitated between theater and painting, then entered the Académie Julian in Paris at eighteen. There, he discovered the classical teaching of drawing and mingled with the Nabis, meeting Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard.
Quickly, Mac'Avoy established himself as a portraitist. His style, of elegant realism, captures the personality of his subjects through gaze and pose more than through setting. He played an active role in Parisian artistic life, notably by founding the Salon Comparaisons in 1956, which brought together artists of all tendencies. He died in 1991.
The gallery offers several signed prints above: a 1966 "Portrait" signed and countersigned, a 1963 lithograph "Portrait," and the 1961 hand-signed in pencil lithograph "Départ pour la Corse." These small formats, very affordable, are shipped to you with care, tracked and insured. Other portraitists and figurative painters to discover: Bernard Buffet, Jean Jansem, and André Minaux.
