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Lot n° 565
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Gentlemen/Dandy theme - Lot 565
Gentlemen/Dandy theme
RAYMOND MORITZ (1891-1950), "Les bretteurs" Mixed media drawing in watercolor and charcoal on paper signed and dated lower right "1944". Sight size 46.5x61 cm In a molded and gilded frame Size 52x66 cm (under glass)
Drawing showing two young men, shirtless, fighting a duel. The alibi of a swordsman's duel serves an obviously erotic purpose. Raymond Moritz came from poor, Catholic families in Alsace. His maternal branch, the Staubs, came from Wihr-au-Val, where they were coopers from father to son. His maternal grandfather, Clément Staub, settled in Kaysersberg (Haut-Rhin), where he owned a house in a cul-de-sac now known as Impasse du père Staub. He lived at number 57. His uncle, Marie-Clément Staub (1876-1936), was the founder of the Congrégation des Soeurs de Sainte Jeanne d'Arc overseas.
He fought in the Great War - the "der des ders" - in the Péronne regiment, the 120th infantry regiment, in the 2nd machine-gun company, and was awarded the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with palm.
At the inauguration of Albert's town hall, he was congratulated by French President Albert Lebrun and the British press for his paintings.
From 1942 to 1944, Moritz hid a Jewish doctor, saving him from roundup and deportation.
Married, he had no biological children, but adopted two little orphans, daughters of a friend who had died prematurely.
He died at his Paris home on April 12, 1950, following a painful illness, as reported in the national daily newspapers. His funeral took place at Saint-Philippe-du-Roule church, where his friend Father Roger Gichardan (1906-1985), director of Le Pèlerin and future novelist with Éditions du Masque under the name Jacques Ouvard, delivered the eulogy. He is now buried in the Parisian cemetery of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis).
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Illustration
As an illustrator, he was notably present in the Parisian publications of Bonne presse, Le Pèlerin (from the 1920s to the 1930s) and L'Illustration. He signed his work R.M.. His signature can be found in the magazine Bernadette (Bonne presse, Paris), in 1947 and 1948. Moritz was the first illustrator of Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret character, whose short stories were prepublished in the press before being published in volume:
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