Merry Go Round 1988

Year1988

Hand SignedUpper Right in Pencil 

Condition Mint 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromPublisher 

Story / Additional InfoIn flawless condition never exposed to light kept in conservation condition since publication. Duo to the image complexity - shipped flat. 

Certificate of AuthenticityNahan Galleries Publication 1988 

LID145529

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.