Maurice Lang

Swimmers on a jetty (1988)

I bought this artwork at an auction recently and, having never heard of the artist, researched him on the internet but could not find anything about him. So I thought I’d share what was written on the label on the back:

Maurice Lang (b1930), familiarly known as Bill, was born in Fremantle in 1930. He has painted since his early youth, studied Graphic Arts at Perth Technical College and in Sydney; and has worked as a commercial artist. In 1957, Bill arrived in Paris, where he became one of the first Australians to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts (1958). He renounced his work as a graphic artist and applied himself entirely to his painting. Since then he has lived and worked between the South of France and Paris, exhibiting mainly in Europe.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

1958 Atelier, Jacqueline Robinson, Paris

1968 Galerie La Galere, Paris

1969 Galerie Claude Levin, Paris

1974 Bookshop Gallery, Ile St. Lois, Paris

1979 Galerie Chapo, Paris

1979 Galerie Regis Langloys, Paris

1980 Salon des Artistes Independants, Paris

1982 Recontres Montparnasse, Paris; Lisieux, Normandy

1985 Musee Roy Adzak

1989 Galerie Gomboc, Perth

1989 Holdswoth Galleries, Sydney