page_title: Max Touret
section_title: The painter
hierarchical_section_title: Max Touret / The painter
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Paysage Normand
context_page_description: Max Touret was a French engineer and painter, who worked in the United States and in Normandy.
context_section_description: Max Touret was trained in the art of painting both because of his mother’s strong taste for the modern school and his own knowledge and friendship in the art world. He likes the work of the Pointillists. Before the war, he attended the French painter Émile Beaume’s workshop, which he told himself to be a student. In 1920, he joined the Volnay Artistic and Literary Circle where he exhibited. His young cousin whom he was very close to and which he will offer many connections to American collectors, the sculptor Charles Georges Cassou, pushes him to exhibit his paintings, many landscapes. Max is also close since 1900 to the architect Julia Morgan. He moved to a Parisian workshop at 41 rue Bayen with the painter Pierre-Ludovic Dumas (1892-?). He joined the Société des Artistes Français and began exhibiting regularly at the Salon until 1936.
  The 1930s marked a change in the inspiration of Max Touret. At the birth of his first daughter Gisèle, he moved with his set up a new workshop. He also makes many trips to the Villa Maltournée, near Honfleur. He then composes nudes and refined Japanese or oriental interiors. Many paintings were stored in his house in Normandy, when, in 1941, the German forces commandeered the house and destroyed the contents, much of which was stolen.
  Max Touret died on February 26, 1963 in Viroflay.
  In the early 2010s, paintings of the painter are found by his family: many landscapes, some portraits, history paintings inspired by America, nudes, still lifes, indoor scenes. Exhibitions are then organized, to get out of oblivion the French artist. A catalog was published in 2018.
caption: Paysage normand, oil on canvas, 1920s.
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