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The painter André Fraye's biography
André  FRAYE
 

1887 - Born in Nantes ( France ) on october 18th.

1909 - He comes to Paris and works with Maxime Maufra.
            He is influenced by the impressionist movement.

1911 - First exhibition in "Salon des Indépendants".

1912 - First exhibition in "Salon d'Automne".

1914 - He painted a splendid portrait of Maxime Maufra : See photo opposite.

            He completely took part in the first world war.Many watercolors from this period will go later into the "Musée de la Guerre".

1922 - Blumenthal Price.

1927 - Foreign exhibitions in London, Boston, Tokyo, Stockholm, but also, Anvers, Bruxelles, Wiesbaden, Barcelone and New York.

1947 - In the Durand-Ruel gallery, he exposed his "Portrait of Maufra", next to paintings of Bonnard, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Vuillard.

             Many other exhibitions in the most famous galleries : Druet, Bernheim, Royale, Charpentier, Petrides.

             He frequently travelled along the atlantic and mediterranean coasts, banks of Seine and also stayed in Venise.

1963 -  He died in Paris on january 16th.

The painter André Fraye's biography