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A charming mid 20th century French oil on canvas depicting a poet next to a windmill, by Maurice Loirand. Housed in a Montparnasse painted wood frame.
Maurice Loirand is featured in Anatole Jakovsky;s "Peintres Naifs" which is considered to be the bible on French Naif painters. In the publication he describes Loirand as "better than Lefranc" and "among the best naive artists".
The work is signed lower left and comes from a collection of Maurice Loirand paintings that we attained from the collection of a friend of the artist. Insribed with title on the reverse
Artist: Maurice Loirand (French, 1922-2008)
Title: Le Poète et le Moulin
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 17 inches (56 x 43 cm)
Maurice Loirand was born in La Montagne, Loire. He was a metalworker at the Arsenal of Indret. Resistant under the Occupation, he became a self-taught artist and moved to Paris where he met the painters André Lenormand, Fernand Léger, Matisse and Picasso. He also knew the poet René Guy Cadou, who particularly appreciated his work.
He travelled extensively with exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, New York. He lived in Japan for around 15 years and married the poet Kazué Shimotori.
Maurice Loirand's paintings can be found among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes, the Naive Art Museum Anatole Jakovsky of Nice, the Museu do Sol in Penápolis.
Museum Holdings:
1953 : Surroundings of the Saint-Cloud Bridge, Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France
1962 : Croix-de-Vie, Musée du Vieux-Château, Laval, France
1964 : Lake Balaton, Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France
1971 : Boats at the port, Argentina, 1971, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
1971 : Gradiva Gallery of Buenos Aires, Argentina
" - Museum of Fréosc
" - National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
" - Museum of the City of Paris, France
1978 : Village of Louisfert (house-school of the poet René Guy Cadou), Museum of Setagaya -ku, Tokyo, Japan
1986 : Tokyo, endless city (2 x 8 m), Edo-Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1999 : La Roche-Posay, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
2009 : Sunday walk, Town Hall of La Montagne, Nantes, France
2009 : The Snowy Village, Town Hall of La Basse-Goulaine, Nantes, France