HELP ID PAINTER PLEASE. 1918?

Thanks

 

May Moreau?

 

That's what it looks like to my eye too. Not a fully formed painter. The bocksbeutel is traditionally German and used from Franconian wines. The other bottle is the traditional shape for Rheingau wines.

Debora

 

ooh yes. and the oysters are from the Ruhr. or you get the Ruhr ?
most probably Portuguese in this combination. there are excellent rosé champagnes from there.

 

I agree, more likely Portuguese. Oysters and Mateus rosé, a classic Portuguese combination.
The bottle on the left, but with an older label which has a higher Mateus banner

 

The Mateus brand didn't exist until 1942.

Debora

 

Which would correspond with my seeing 1948 instead of 1918, which I should have mentioned.
I could be wrong, of course.

 

Geographic area this was found? May mean nothing, never hurts to include the info.

 

And the internet tells me the bocksbeutel has been around since the 18th century, so I'm good with it being 191? (not 100% on the last digit).

After a certain point in the evening, all wine labels look similar.

 

here. Franken-Oyster.

 

If the general consensus is that the artist’s first name is May then I suggest the first initial of the sur name is N not M (the two initials side by side do not match in my eyes)

I read the last name as Noury.

 

The bentwood chair would seem to point more to the 40’s as well.

 

not too sure. looks like a Vienna coffee house chair - either Thonet or Kohn. so earlier is possible. 1900 to 1930s ? the bottle may as well be Austrian; we had an import license to Switzerland for an Austrian white wine that had similar bottles. can't remember the name. Nussbauer ?

 

I think the artist is Max Moreau

 

If you're right (and I think it's a good possibility) and if the internet is right that he was born in 1902, then he was 16 when he painted this. Not bad.

 

Or possibly 46?

 

I don't see a four, no matter how I squint.

Plus, work he was doing in 1948 (or the late 30s at least... don't know if I saw anything from the forties) was much more accomplished than this.

Don't think this was done in 1948 unless it's a different guy... or he started painting with his non-dominant hand.

 

I agree.... it is Max Leon Moreau 1902-1992. He has hundreds of auction records, most of which are portraits and street scenes. I believe it to be 1902 as well due to the fact that his earlier work was still lifes as his later work the aforementioned street scenes and portraits. In fact, I could only find three auction records of a still life - two of which were dated 1929.

 

I'm confused - if Max was born in 1902, how could a painting of his be dated that same year? Or is that not what you meant @www.mclarenauction.com ?

 

I think the date on the painting in question is 1918 so he would have been 16 at the time of this painting. I mis-typed. Woops!