Maria Manton (1910–2003) was a French painter.
Biography
Maria Manton was born on 4 December 1910 in
Blida
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. During the German occupation of
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in 1870, her maternal grandparents came to settle in the outskirts of the city. A native of
Tarbes
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, her father had a military career and for about ten years the family followed his travels before settling in
Algiers
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. At the end of her secondary studies, during which she was passionate about Egyptology, Maria Manton fell ill for more than a year, which forced her to give up starting higher education and she began to draw. She attended drawing classes and then the painting studio of the School of Fine Arts in Algiers from 1936 to 1942. There, in 1941 she met Louis Nallard, whom she married in 1944. She also met Marcel Bouqueton and Sauveur Galliéro, with whom she exhibited in 1942, and Robert Martin, who later directed the
avant-garde
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gallery Colline in
Oran
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, then the painter Georges Ladrey. In 1946 she made her first solo exhibition and participated in the ''“Ecole de Paris” exhibition'' organized by
Gaston Diehl
Gaston Diehl (10 August 1912 – 12 December 1999) was a French professor of art history and an art critic.
Biography
Diehl graduated from the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie in 1934 and the Ecole du Louvre in 1936. In October 1935, Diel and his ...
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Personal exhibitions
* 1950 - Paris, Colette Allendy Gallery; Amsterdam, Le Canard Gallery
* 1952 - Paris, Arnaud Gallery; Antwerp, Kunst Kabinet Horemans
* 1953 - Lyon, gallery Grange; Algiers, gallery Rivages (Edmond Charlot)
* 1954 - Paris, gallery Arnaud
* 1956 - Paris, gallery The Wheel
* 1957 - Paris, Arnaud Gallery; Schiedam (Netherlands), CCC Gallery
* 1961 - Paris, gallery The Wheel
* 1962 - Lausanne, gallery of the Grand Chêne
* 1965 - Paris, gallery La Roue
* 1968 - Paris, workshop Le Bret
* 1969 - Budapest, Hungarian Center for Cultural Relations
* 1972 - Maillot-Sens, summer festival
* 1975 - Paris, Atelier Moissinac
* 1980 - Toulouse, gallery P.-J. Meurisse
* 1983 - Paris, Jacques Massol Gallery; Toulouse, gallery Génélis
* 1985 - Paris, gallery Callu Mérite
* 1987 - Paris, gallery Callu Merit
* 1989 - Paris, Algerian Cultural Center (with Louis Nallard)
* 1990 - Paris, "Abstracts from 1948 to 1954", gallery Callu Merite; Évreux, "40 Years of Painting", Maison des arts; Paris, "Works on paper", gallery Debaigts; Amsterdam, gallery M. de Boer (Maria Manton and Louis Nallard)
* 1992 - Paris, "46 years of painting, 1946-1992", gallery Callu Merit
* 2000 - Paris, gallery Nicolas Deman
* 2014 - Paris gallery Artemper (Maria Manton and Louis Nallard)
* 2015 - Paris, Buci Gallery (Maria Manton and Louis Nallard)
References
Content in this article is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at
:fr:Maria Manton
External links
Maria Manton on Artnet
1910 births
2003 deaths
French abstract painters
Art duos
School of Paris
French women painters
20th-century French women artists
Emigrants from French Algeria to France
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