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Max Savy (1918–2010), a painter and illustrator born in Albi, connected his career with the Languedoc region and artistic education. A schoolteacher in Villepinte from 1941, he later taught drawing in Carcassonne, where the Musée des Beaux-Arts hosted his first exhibition in 1945. Rural life and landscapes filled with light became his preferred subjects, placing figures and their surroundings within a shared world of observation. From the 1960s his work circulated in galleries, followed by presentations in Paris and at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi. A donation of eighty-one paintings to the Carcassonne museum in 2010, followed by an exhibition in 2012, gave a lasting institutional presence to these regional connections.
This profile brings together identity references for Max Savy and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Piguet · Dobiaschofsky
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Oil on canvas
"Les filles surprises"
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2022-03-01 — 2022-03-16
Published result : 450 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300–500
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"Première neige".
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 850 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 450
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