Art of the 20th Century
A Revolution in the Arts
Maurice Tabard
Maurice Tabard
(French, 1897–1984)
At an early age, Maurice Tabard studied fabric design at his father's silk manufacturing plant in France. The family relocated to the United States for his father's work and Tabard studied photography at the New York Institute of Photography. He returned to France in the late 1920s and continued his experimentation with double exposures and solarization techniques, producing surrealist portraits, and still lifes. Tabard worked in the fashion, advertising and portrait photography industries from 1928-1938. Most of his work, including his entire negative archive, was lost during WWII. Tabard retired in 1965 and moved to Nice in 1980.
Untitled (portrait montage)
1932
Untitled
1939
Photomontage (Standing nude with superimposed face)
1929
Composition (Nude montage with gloves)
1929
Untitled (Hand montage)
1929
Solarization
1937
1927
Gant et flacon sous les toits de Paris
1929
Composition aux guitares
1932
Cobblestones and Snow
1931
Untitled
Notre Dame de Paris
Composition
1950
Untitled (Solarization)
1937
Untitled
Gare Montparnasse
1930
Hippodrome sous la pluie
1954
Jeune femme au parapluie
