Marcel Mouly

Marcel Mouly (1918 - 2008) was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. At the age of 13, Mouly left school and started working. In 1935, he started attending night classes at an art academy located in the Montparnasse district of Paris. However, he was conscripted into the French military in 1938. During the occupation of France in 1940, Mouly returned to civilian life. Along with fellow artist Edouard Pignon, he rented the Boulogne studio of the famous modernist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), who introduced Mouly to Cubism. In 1945 Mouly's paintings were exhibited (alongside paintings by Matisse) at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, he took part in the open art forums of the Ecole de Boulogne, and studied with Leger, Pignon, and Bertin. By the mid 1950s Mouly was an established painter with his own unique style. He then began to work as a printmaker. Mouly exhibited both his paintings and printmaking extensively. Examples of his works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Japan and Helsinki, the Museum of Geneva and Paris' Bibliotheque Nationale. He has also been the subject of numerous books, and recognized by such honors as the Chevalier de L'Orde des Arts et Lettres (1957) and the Premier Prix de Lithographie (1973). Mouly is also famed to been the last surviving student of Pablo Picasso.