Paul Mantes
His available works
Lived and worked in Paris
Biography
Second Grand Prix de Rome for painting, Paul Mantes taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Boulle school.
DPLG architect, he produced buildings, villas, administrative buildings and in particular projects to put the Defense district into perspective.
Exceptional painter, Paul Mantes graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a Major and second Grand Prix de Rome. After a career as an architect DPLG, he returned to his first vocation: painting.
Great worker, meticulous and persevering, he was approved in the very closed world of copyists of the National Museums, in particular of the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay.
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This is how he reproduced some thirty major paintings which allowed him to make himself known to a few insiders, when a television producer preparing his film on Vincent Van Gogh was not authorized to film an original. It was a magnificent copy of a self-portrait of the artist created by Paul Mantes which was chosen and toured the world.
Paul Mantes' personal work therefore includes many copies of originals from the Louvre or Orsay museums, sumptuous “trompe l'oeil”, and a remarkable personal work: "Imaginary cities", "Lost paradises", "Dreamlike visions", incredible Palladian visions of metropolises in ruins, of solitary cathedrals, sometimes with surprising baroque paintings of religious inspiration.
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Paul Mantes has held several exhibitions in France and abroad, notably on La Défense in Paris and at Pacific Place in Hong Kong.
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