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The son of florists, Maurice Delavier was born on November 9, 1902, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1925. A prisoner during the Second World War, he produced sketches of life in a stalag. He is responsible, among other things, for the woodcuts of Maurice Genevoix's Raboliot (1927).
Maurice Delavier lived at 25 Quai des Augustins when he married photographer Alice Schmidt in 1933. Following family tradition, he continued his business as a flower broker throughout the 1930s. With his wife, they still resided near the Seine in a house with other painters at 19 Quai Saint-Michel. It was from his home, during the liberation of Paris on June 19, 1944, that he took photographs now preserved at the Carnavalet Museum. He lived there until his death.
Maurice Delavier died on November 23, 1986, at the Cochin Hospital in the 14th arrondissement and is buried in the Soisy-sur-Seine cemetery.
Oil on canvas painting, signed lower right, unframed.
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