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Robert Tatin
Robert Tatin
Robert Tatin was born on 9 January 1902 at l'Epine d'Avesnières in Laval in Mayenne in a modest and contrasting environment, between a Dreyfusard father and a practising Catholic mother.
In 1909, he sat on the benches of the municipal school, until he obtained his school certificate. He then began his entry into professional life with an apprenticeship as a house painter. He then entered the path of construction and creation, which he never left.
In 1918, he moved to Paris at the age of seventeen as a painter-decorator. At the same time, he studied drawing and painting by attending fre...
Robert Tatin was born on 9 January 1902 at l'Epine d'Avesnières in Laval in Mayenne in a modest and contrasting environment, between a Dreyfusard father and a practising Catholic mother.
In 1909, he sat on the benches of the municipal school, until he obtained his school certificate. He then began his entry into professional life with an apprenticeship as a house painter. He then entered the path of construction and creation, which he never left.
In 1918, he moved to Paris at the age of seventeen as a painter-decorator. At the same time, he studied drawing and painting by attending free academies. He is enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris and at the fresco workshop of the Ecole des Arts Appliqués.
From 1922 to 1924, he did his military service in Chartres where he attended evening classes in trigonometry, descriptive geometry and geometry in space.
Returning to Laval, at the age of twenty-three, he began training as a carpenter for several years.
At twenty-eight years old, in 1930, he created his own construction company in Laval, which grew very quickly. It was a prosperous period during which Tatin travelled extensively. He discovered several European countries, North Africa and New York in 1938.
In 1945, deeply marked by the horrors of war, he decided to embark on an artistic life without concessions. This was a major turning point in his life as a creator. In 1947, he created a ceramic and painting workshop in Paris. By participating in the reconstruction of the "cultural Paris", he frequents Prévert, Breton, Cocteau, Giacometti, Dubuffet, and enjoys national recognition.
In 1950, Tatin decided to leave France. He left for Brazil and first worked for Matarazzo Sobrhino (director of the Sao Paulo Museum of Fine Arts and a wealthy industrialist) as a painter, sculptor and ceramist. He is part of a team of technicians and chemists who study high temperatures. Tatin deepens his knowledge in the field of ceramics. In 1951 he exhibited at the first Sao Paulo Biennial and won first prize in sculpture. He then travelled through South America: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile to Tierra del Fuego. In contact with the Amerindians, Tatin freed himself completely from academic dogmas and widened his range of forms and colours. His fame became international.
Returning to France in 1955, he settled in Vence and worked in Laval and Paris. In the field of painting, it is during this period that he asserts the full extent of his pictorial technique. He exhibits in Paris, notably in the University Gallery of Robert Steindecker, who has become his patron. In 1961, he won the Critics' Prize in Paris.
In 1962, Robert Tatin returned to Mayenne for good, bought a small house in Cossé-le-Vivien and set about building his "Maison des Champs" with his young wife Lise.
