US Bird 1980 39x29 - Framed Oil on Canvas - Signed Twice

Year1980

Hand SignedLower Right and on Canvas 

Condition Other - very small nick in frame 

Framed without GlassCanvas on Stretcher Bars 

Purchased fromOther 2020 

Provenance / HistoryPurchased 1987 at an event with the artist in attendance, Nahan Galleries, 540 Royal Street New Orleans LA 70130. 

Story / Additional InfoPurchased it after meeting with Max Papart in the 1980s in New Orleans. Max personally expressed his inspiration for the Bird paintings after his time in the French Resistance after WW2. 

Certificate of AuthenticityThe Upstairs Gallery 

Additional InformationSUPER - Signed Twice: Lower Right and on Canvas 

LID175543

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.