Code: 6044
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A beautiful mid 20th century French oil on canvas depicting the famous Le Consulat Café on Rue Norvins in Montmarte, Paris, by Maurice Loirand. Striking and excellent quality work by this very interesting artist.
Often referred to as Paris’s cutest café, Le Consulat is one of the oldest in Montmartre and has counted among it's patrons the likes of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Monet in the nineteenth century; Picasso and Hemingway in the twentieth.
The work is signed lower left and presented in a superb carved and painted wood Montparnasse frame. Inscribed in Japanese on the reverse.
Artist: Maurice Loirand (French, 1922-2008)
Title: Le Consulat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30.5 x 27.5 inches (78 x 70 cm) including the frame
Maurice Loirand was born in La Montagne, Loire. He was a metalworker at the Arsenal of Indret. Resistant under the Occupation, he became a self-taught artist and moved to Paris where he met the painters André Lenormand, Fernand Léger, Matisse and Picasso. He also knew the poet René Guy Cadou, who particularly appreciated his work.
He travelled extensively with exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, New York. He lived in Japan for around 15 years where married the poet Kazué Shimotori, before returning to Paris.
Maurice Loirand's paintings can be found among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes, the Naive Art Museum Anatole Jakovsky of Nice, the Museu do Sol in Penápolis.
Museum Holdings:
1953 : Surroundings of the Saint-Cloud Bridge, Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France
1962 : Croix-de-Vie, Musée du Vieux-Château, Laval, France
1964 : Lake Balaton, Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France
1971 : Boats at the port, Argentina, 1971, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
1971 : Gradiva Gallery of Buenos Aires, Argentina
" - Museum of Fréosc
" - National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
" - Museum of the City of Paris, France
1978 : Village of Louisfert (house-school of the poet René Guy Cadou), Museum of Setagaya -ku, Tokyo, Japan
1986 : Tokyo, endless city (2 x 8 m), Edo-Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1999 : La Roche-Posay, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
2009 : Sunday walk, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
2009 : The Snowy Village, Town Hall of La Basse-Goulaine, Nantes, France
