2 weeks in France-5-26 to 6/8/2022
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Historic center con'd & Archdiocese' garden |
Day 2 |
2 Days in Bourges, France-5/29/2022 to 5/30/2022
Day 2-Musee Estève-5/30/2022
The Musee Esteve is located in the
Hôtel des Échevins. The Hôtel des Échevins, built in
1489, was the seat of the municipality of Bourges.
The Hôtel des Échevins has been classified as a historical monument since
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Since 2014, the Caliban, a sculpture by the American artist Alexandre Calder, sits in the courtyard of the Hotel des Echevins.
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Tower-staircase
The entrance of the Museum
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The city of Bourges has dedicated a museum to the painter
Maurice Estève, born in Berry (1904-2001).
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The
Hôtel des Échevins houses the collection donated by Monique and
Maurice Esteve.
Occupying 3 floors linked by an external spiral staircase, the paintings of
the French artist (1904-2001) are presented in chronological order.
 Christine aux Amis-Oil on canvas -1938 |
 La toilette Verte- oil on Canvas -1934 |
 La Toilette a L'enfant Rouge, Oil on Canvas-1934 |
 Paysanne endormie aux rideaux verts, Oil on Canvas-1924 |
We are now on the 2nd floor with mostly the artist's work on paper
Study in 1935 for the painting " Le Sculpteur in 1947".
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Hall way leading to another room with lots of paintings.
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This area is dedicated to the look on Colonization.
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Terracotta Bust "Why be born a slave?" by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux-1868
Linoleum print in black about colonization.
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Ending our visit on the 2nd floor and now we are headed to the 3rd floor.
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Spiral staircase connecting to all 3 floors.
Large room surrounded by paintings.
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Estève's extensive work was not limited to the genre of painting. He was also active in collage, textile design and murals.
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 La feuille volant, Oil on Canvas-1929 |
 Embarquement pour Cythere, Oil on Canvas -1929 |
 Joueur de flute, Oil on Canvas -1931 |
 La lecture, Oil on Canvas-1936 |
 Les soeurs de Barcelone, Oil on Canvas -1936 |
 Table blance, verre Bleu - oil in canvas 1938 |
 Chantafret-Oil on Canvas -1961 |
The 5 stage of creation of a painting.
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The artist showing how the painting was sketch on the left on 9/25/1961 and by 10/6/1961 colors were added.
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On the left is how the painting looked like on 12/31/1961 by 3/9/1962 the paining looked totally different.
 This is the final painting by 5/3/1963 |
 Le Repas, Oil on Canvas-1937 |
 Table rouge, Oil on Canvas-1938 |
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Taking the stairs to the 1st floor.
Monumental fireplace on the ground floor before exiting the Museum.
Maurice Estève was largely self-educated, having only attended the free studio of the Académie Colarossi in 1924, where he tried to constructively implement of his motifs according to the model of Georges Braque and Fernand Léger, thus creating a kind of Cubist Fauvism.
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Estève began to move away from realism in 1928, and was influenced in the following years by Léger, Matisse and Bonnard. His first one-man exhibition was given at the Galerie Yvangot, Paris, 1930. He worked as assistant to Robert Delaunay on huge decorative panels for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. In the 1940s his stylized figure, still-life and landscape compositions with strong colors gradually became completely abstract, with tight-knit interlocking shapes in rich, bold colors. Has made a number of watercolors and collages, and designed stained glass in 1957 for a church at Berlincourt in the Bernese Jura.
Maurice Estève died on 29 June 2001 at the age of 97 in his home town of Culan.
