Le Jour Des Temps, Complete Suite of 12 HS Etchings (early work 1975)

Year1975

Hand SignedEach Etching is Hand Signed, Lower Right 

Condition Mint 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromDealer 2008 

Story / Additional InfoPrivate Dealer 

Certificate of AuthenticityKCM Galleries 

LID60695

Max Papart - France

Art Brokerage: Max Papart French Artist: b. 1911-1994. Max Papart's paintings and graphics are suffused with the sunny humor and bright colors of the French Riviera, where he was born in 1911. Working in a Cubist style, Max Papart depicts circus scenes, flirting couples, soaring birds, and similar cheerful subjects with flat, overlapping planes of contrasting colors and textures which suggest many levels of depth. Often he also achieves what has been called a "time window" effect, through which the viewer sen'sses the past or future. This is not to say that Max Papart is simply a purveyor of superficial entertainment. For all their decorative gaiety, Papart works also force the viewer to think. As the noted critic André Parinaud put it, "We are going to rediscover Max Papart as one of the masters of the second cubist generation. Original paintings wanted.