"Maclet Elisée Painting 20th French School Paris View Of Montmartre The Sacred Heart Signed Oil"
MACLET Elisée ( 1881 / 1962 )
Paris, view of Montmartre, the Sacré Coeur seen from St Rustique Street.
Oil on cardboard signed at the bottom left.
61 x 46 cm
Literature: Bénézit - Elisée Maclet by M. Guicheteau and J. Cottel - Maclet the last Montmartrois by Martine and Bertrand Willot - Dictionary of painters of Montmartre by André Roussard -
MACLET Elisée, Born on April 12, 1881 in Lyons-en-Santerre, Died on August 23, 1962 in Paris, Painter of landscapes, urban landscapes.
It was an abbot, a Sunday painter, who taught him some rudiments of oil painting. He came to settle in Montmartre in 1906.The writers Colette, Francis Carco, and other personalities, an American merchant became interested in him. Max Jacob wrote about him. In 1933 he had to be interned and never fully recovered from his mental disorders. He exhibited in Paris in 1960. He painted the typical landscapes of the Butte de Montmartre, The Rabbit in Gill, Moulin de La Galette, Mimi Pinson's House before Utrillo took them as themes. After the first world War, his views of Paris earned him great success. Around 1920 a wealthy amateur gave him the means for a long stay in the south of where he brought back landscapes whose wonder at the Mediterranean nature that they translated sometimes made the name of Matisse evoke