MONTANÉ Roger

Roger Montané (1916-2002), French painter and lithographer born in Bordeaux, official painter of the Navy, known for his simplified landscapes populated with figures. Lithographs and exhibition poster.

Roger Montané, the Great Simplifier of Landscapes

Roger Montané (1916-2002) was a French painter and lithographer, appointed official painter of the Navy in 1979. A great simplifier of landscapes, he captures only the essential masses of hills, trees, and shores, populating them with serene figures in a deliberately reduced color palette.

Official Painter of the Navy

Born in Bordeaux on February 21, 1916, Roger Montané created a figurative oeuvre of great unity. His paintings combine a foreground often inhabited by firmly grounded women and a mineral, almost architectural landscape. Nothing is more skillful than this apparent simplicity: the composition is rigorous, the color applied in broad planes, the light full and calm. The writer Armand Lanoux, from the Goncourt Academy, was one of his admirers and awarded him the Medal of Merit in 1982. He exhibited in major Parisian galleries and abroad, notably at the Maison de la pensée française in Paris in 1961.

Roger Montané at Galerie 125

The gallery offers above the original lithograph "À la montagne," measuring 72 x 52 cm, the 1962 lithograph "Chute vers le soleil," the hand-signed in pencil lithograph "Route de Lannion à Paimpol" from 1961, as well as the poster of his exhibition at the Maison de la pensée française. Affordable works, shipped quickly with tracking, insurance, and certificate. Discover other Navy painters and landscapists: André Hambourg, Yves Brayer, and Roger Mühl.