![]() ![]() When he was a young painter, Maxence distinguished himself by his taste for portraits. This failure certainly determined his future artistic way. Despite these prizes, he was eliminated from the first round of the 1895’s Prix de Rome. ![]() Maxence’s studies at the Fine Arts School were brilliant: in 1893 he obtained the prize of "Premier Logiste" and won the first prize for expression faces in 1894. The meeting between Maxence and Moreau was absolutely decisive for the young artist who stayed in his master’s studio until 1896, and remained faithful to his teaching all along his life. ![]() He first went to Elie Delaunay’s studio, and after to Gustave Moreau’s. In 1891, Maxence was a successful candidate at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. During his schooling at the "Externat des Enfants Nantais", he followed the drawing lessons of Abbot Sotta (the first master of Elie Delaunay) who certainly was at the beginning of his artistic vocation. But his mother, Estelle Boquien, with the cultural environment of Nantes helped him to choose an artistic career. Nothing predestined him to become an artist. ![]() Biography of Edgard Maxence ( 1871-1954 )Įdgard Maxence was born in Nantes in 1871 in a family of landowners. ![]()
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