Maurice Rocher (1918-1995) - Le Procureur #2

The Prosecutor #2 - Maurice Rocher (1918-1995)
Gouache on paper before 1960 - Signed at the top left in the gouache and in pencil at the bottom right, framed
Frame dimensions: 47x30 cm
Gouache dimensions in the passe-partout: 27x20.5 cm
This is a photo frame primarily intended to protect the artwork
Provenance: Private Camdessus collection - acquired from the artist.
Shipped framed, with tracking and insurance.

Maurice Rocher, born August 1, 1918 in Évron and died July 12, 1995 in Versailles, is a French painter whose work is imbued with Expressionism and spirituality. Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and at the Sacred Art Studios under the guidance of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallières, he explores intense and often mystical themes such as crucifixions, the tormented, faces-materials, women and couples. His art, influenced by Constant Permeke, is characterized by dark tones, his brown period, between 1936 and 1965, and compositions charged with a powerful pictorial matter and more colorful between 1966 and 1995.
Maurice Rocher remains an unclassifiable artist, an “anarcho-mystic” to borrow the words of one of his biographers. Marked first by faith, then by doubt and finally by the quest for meaning, his work remains an interrogation of eternal values between the sacred and the profane. The Gouaches in black and white: they revisit the themes of the painter’s emblematic series.

Salons
Paris, Salon of those under thirty, 1941.
Paris, Sacred Art Salon: 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949.
Paris, Charpentier Gallery, One Hundred Masterpieces of Sacred Art, 1952.
Paris, Galliera Museum, Celebrities and Revelations of Contemporary Painting, 1953.
Paris, Biennale of Young Artists, 1957.
Brussels World Exhibition, 1958.
Autumn Salon: 1960 to 1970.
Tokyo, International Figurative Art Exhibition, 1964.
Tehran, First International Exhibition of Tehran Arts, International Exhibitions Centre, December 1974 – January 1975[18].
Paris, Grand and Young of Today Salon, 1976 to 1981.
Paris, Salon des réalités nouvelles, 1968 to 1985.

Notable Exhibitions
The Association of Painting Enthusiasts presented Bernard Buffet, André Minaux, Roger Montané, Maurice Rocher, Gaëtan de Rosnay, Robert Savary, Maurice Verdier, Paul Aïzpiri… Galerie Jacques Leuvraix, 182 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, January 1949[19].
Drouant Gallery, Paris, 1964
Jacques Massol Gallery, Paris, 1968, 1970, 1972[21].
Veranneman Gallery, Brussels, 1970.
Saint-Omer Museum, 1974.
Altex Gallery, Madrid, 1977.
Ariel Gallery, Paris, 1976, 1979.
Musée du Vieux Château, Laval, 1981.
Protée Gallery, Paris, 1983, 1984, 1988.
Convergence Gallery, Nantes, 1982, 1986.
Twenty Modern and Contemporary Masters, Serge Garnier Gallery, Paris, 1983.
The Figuratives from the 60s to the Present - Valerio Adami, Lydie Arickx, Eduardo Arroyo, Philippe Bonnet, John Christoforou, Robert Combas, Pierre Dessons, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Peter Klasen, Claude Morini, Jean Revol, Maurice Rocher, Jean Rustin, Gérard Schlosser, Hervé Télémaque, Vladimir Veličković…, itinerant exhibition_ 1986-1987
Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, Paris 1993, 1998, 2002, 2006.
Galerie Pierre Marie Vitoux, Paris, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2007, May–June 2014, March–April 2017.
Collection Jean Pollak - Fifty Years of Painting in France, Musée départemental Zadkine, Les Arques, 2005
Galerie Zafman, Paris 2008.
Versailles in the 20th Century, Muse of the Artists, Musée Lambinet, Versailles, September–November 2020
Cabane Georgina, Marseille 2023.
Galerie Ories, Paris, October 2024

Works in Museums
IN FRANCE:
Versailles, Musée Lambinet, Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix, Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques CNAP, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain FNAC, Cannes, Musée de la Castre, Laval, Musée de Laval, Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Pontoise, Musée Tavet-Delacour, Brest, Artothèque of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest
ABROAD:
Brussels, Belgium, Kruishoutem, Belgium Veranneman Foundation, Wiesbaden, Germany, Ministry of Science and Arts of Hesse, Rome, Italy, Vatican City, Museum of Sacred Contemporary Art, Chihuahua, Mexico, Cuauhtémoc Museum, Taichung, Taiwan, Taichung Contemporary Art Museum