Maurice Marinot

Maurice Marinot (1882 - 1960) was a French painter, considered a member of Les Fauves, and then a major artist in glass.

Man in Beret, 1945

Marinot's father was a bonnet maker. Maurice did poorly in school but convinced his parents to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901 to train as a painter under French painter, Fernand Cormon. He left art school after his work wasn't accepted by the standards of the day. In 1905 he returned to Troyes, where he stayed for the rest of his life.

In the 1944 Allied bombing of Troyes there was direct hit on his studio, destroying over 2,500 paintings, thousands of drawings, and much of his glass.