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36 - Maurice Rocher (1918–1995) The Ambassador’s Wife or Bather N…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Maurice Rocher (1918–1995) The Ambassador’s Wife or Bather No. 6 1974 Oil on canvas, signed top left, titled and dated on the reverse 89 x 116 cm Condition report: Framed “Following a path seldom trodden except by Rouault, Soutine and Permeke, Maurice Rocher established himself as a portraitist of a suffering humanity [...] Bodies and faces are slashed by a brush that exploits the full richness of a Goyaesque palette. Flashings of black and red, streaked with white, dictate the convulsive forms of beings of flesh and blood.” Lydia Harambourg A painter who pushed the boundaries of Expressionism in the second half of the 20th century, Maurice Rocher’s work also takes on a sacred dimension: from 1936 to 1939, he trained under Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallières. His work centres on major themes such as crucifixions, churches, ‘flesh-like’ faces and nudes… The religious and the carnal, birth and death punctuate the pictorial explorations of a committed and fierce artist who made texture his ally of choice! Winner of the Prix de la Jeune Peinture in 1952, a resident at the Casa Velasquez, and represented in countless public collections (including that of the Vatican!), Maurice Rocher has nevertheless been somewhat forgotten by the younger generation… His fierce determination, his uncompromising nature and his high standards are not unrelated to this; not everyone has been able to cope with such a character. He is, however, one of the great French Expressionist painters, and his work will, sooner or later, emerge from the shadow in which it currently seems trapped.
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About the sale Contemporary Art • Street Art • Ceramics • Design
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Auction time 08/22/2026 at 10:30 AM
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