Maurice Savin lived from 1894 to 1973. He began his career as a cartoonist for humorous newspapers. He practices painting in parallel and exhibits in particular since 1921 at Galerie Vildrac rue de Seine in Paris. He then occupies a workshop in the Champ de Mars but returns punctually in his native region and in the city of Dieulefit.

He worked in Brittany, Dordogne, Ariège and Provence. Savin exhibits at the Salon des Independants and the Salon d'Automne. He also exhibits in many galleries such as that of the art dealer Berthe Weill where Paul Poiret buys several of his paintings and orders engravings. In his painted work, Maurice Savin strives to reduce and synthesize his palette to use only se...