Biography
Maurice Albert Loutreuil (b. Montmirail, France 1885 - d. Paris 1925) attended Jules Hervé-Mathé's evening painting classes in Le Mans (1906 -1909). From this period he produced caricatures signed under the pseudonym "Naresco". From 1909 he took lessons from Ferdinand Humbert (1842 - 1934) in Paris. He became a caricaturist for the humourist journals Le Pêle-mêle, Le Sourire, L'Indiscret and Le Charivan. He also studied under the fresco painter Paul Baudouin (1844-1931) and in 1913 he completed his first commission, a fresco for the French pavilion at the Ghent exhibition, with Marcel Chotin (1888-1969). In 1914, he met the artist André Masson (1996-1987) and they travelled to Italy together but when the war broke out he escaped to Sardinia to be later discovered in Naples in 1916 and returned to the French police. He was imprisoned in Marseilles until his release and went to Tunisia in January 1917.
After the end of WW2 he stayed with Masson again in the south of France and returned to Paris in 1919. He exhibited at the first and only Salon de l'Œuvre anonyme, which he had initiated; the artistic collective of the Encrier, at 74 rue du Bac (both 1921); at the Salon d'Automne and had his first solo exhibition at the headquarters of the Montparnasse magazine (both 1922). He travelled to Senegal in January 1924 but died the following year, back in Paris from hepititas.
