BARRAUD Maurice Lot n° 30

Drawings and Watercolor Paintings, "Young woman",Maurice Barraud followed an apprenticeship as an advertising designer and opened his own workshop in 1909. During this period, he was a student at the Geneva School of Fine Arts before devoting himself completely to painting in 1913. In 1914, at the following his first exhibition at the Moos gallery, he founded the "Falot" group with his brother François Barraud, Hans Berger, Emile Bressler and Gustave Buchet. From 1923 to 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, he visited Spain, Algeria and Italy. In 1929, he produced several murals at Lucerne station, at Biel station, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva at the museum of federal charters in Schwyz, as well as at the University of Friborg. He illustrates several works, in particular, for the writers Francis Carco, Jean Giraudoux and Jacques Chenevière. From 1917 to 1919, he participated in the illustration and layout of the art and literature review L'Eventail. A street in Geneva bears the artist's name Work on paper Black wooden frame with glass pane 81 x 61 x 1,5 cm / Mid-20th Century