Richard Maguet (7 March 1896,

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– 16 June 1940, Sully-sur-Loire) was a French

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painter.

Biography

He was born to a middle-class family of modest means. His first trip to Paris came in 1913. There, with a recommendation from the sculptor Albert Roze, he studied in the workshops of the designer, , who became one of his best friends. Two years later, he was conscripted and fought at the

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, for which he was awarded the

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. He was demobilized in 1919, returned to Paris, worked as a printer and, a year later, got married.Brief biography
@ the Richard Maguet website. After that, he provided illustrations and cartoons for several newspapers, as well as doing costume designs. He also had his first solo exhibitions at the

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and the

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. In the late 1920s, he made several stays in

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(notably at Cravant) and

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, with his friends and

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. In 1930, he was named Secretary of the Salon d'Automne. Two years later, he toured Southern France and visited

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, where he stayed at the

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; one of the benefits of having been awarded the Prix Abd-el-Tif, together with the sculptor . Shortly after returning, his wife, Lucienne, died of a heart attack. To help assuage his grief, he spent a year travelling throughout Algeria and Morocco. In 1935, he went back to Paris and married Denise Titre, a great-granddaughter of Elisée Reclus. She published a

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of him as a wedding gift. In 1939, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to a

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regiment. The following year, he was killed in a bombing raid by the Italian Air Force that destroyed Sully-sur-Loire. He was buried at a memorial cemetery in Saint-Père-sur-Loire. His tombstone was designed by his friend, Damboise.

Selected paintings

Maguet-Interior.jpg, Interior (with Denise) Maguet-Men.jpg, Young Men in the Park Maguet-Flutist.jpg, Moroccan Flutist Maguet-View.jpg, View from the Artist's Window at Abd-el-Tif Maguet-Chamise.jpg, Seated Woman in Chemise, Reading

References

External links

Richard Maguet website
with criticisms, letters and galleries. {{DEFAULTSORT:Maguet, Richard 1896 births 1940 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French landscape painters French Army personnel killed in World War II French military personnel of World War I French Post-impressionist painters Artists from Amiens Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) Deaths by Italian airstrikes during World War II

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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