SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
The French painter, printmaker, illustrator and collage artist Max Papart (1911–1994), born in Marseille, developed a practice spanning several media. After attending classes at the École des beaux-arts de Marseille for a time in 1928, he chose to train himself, notably through painting outdoors and studying the masters. In Paris, he worked as a printmaker and printer while continuing to paint and study works in museums; early in his career, he exhibited at the Salon des indépendants and began practising aquatint. During the war, he joined the Resistance and took part in the Liberation of Marseille. From 1946 to 1948, several solo exhibitions of his work were held in Marseille, at the Galerie Da Silva, and then in Nice, at the Galerie Masséna.
From 1958, his work moved away from figurative art: he explored lyrical abstraction and developed collage. Between 1965 and 1971, making bronze medals at the request of the Hôtel de la Monnaie also led him to take up sculpture. He taught printmaking at the Université de Paris-VIII-Vincennes until 1973. He collaborated with Lydie and Robert Dutrou on the publication of large aquatints for the Éditions de La Galerie Ken Nahan.
From 1981, he settled in New Orleans; after this move, solo exhibitions were held in Japan, the United States and France. From 1990, he lived between New York and Paris. The Palais de l’Europe in Menton devoted a retrospective to him. In 1985, a monograph by Roger Green and Jean-Marie Dunoyer was published in French, Spanish and English.
This profile brings together identity references for Max Papart and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
5 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Piguet. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Mixed media and collage on canvas
"Composition".
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Lwd
Catalogue period : 2021-05-07
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Watercolour and collage
Ohne Titel.
Aquarell und Collage
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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"Couple légitime".
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 5500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 6500
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Colour carborundum print
Composition
carborundum couleurs
Catalogue period : 2016-12-12
Published result : 140 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 100–150
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à MAX PAPART — Südliche Stadtpartie vor blauem Himmel.
Öl auf Leinwand
Zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
