Marcel EUVRARD (1905 - 2007) - Lot 394

Marcel EUVRARD (1905 - 2007) "Place d'Alliance". Watercolor. Signed lower left. Size : 31 x 22 cm. Born in Belfort on April 23, 1905, Marcel Euvrard spent his youth in Château-Thierry. At the age of eighteen, he joined Chemins de fer de l'Est as an industrial draftsman, and gave free rein to his passion for watercolors. He spent the war in Vesoul, where he was mobilized for duty. In 1952, he left his native Franche-Comté and settled in Nancy. It was in the capital of Lorraine that his talent as a watercolorist really came into its own, and he regularly exhibited at a number of art fairs. In 2005, he was named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He died in December 2007 in Saint Max. Bibl.: Harcos "Peintres et graveurs lorrains" (Lorraine painters and engravers) Consultant : Mr. Robert Leterrier