{{short description|French painter}}

{{Infobox artist | name = Maurice Savin | image =Maurice Savin dans Comœdia du 31 juillet 1943.png | image_size = | caption = in ''Comœdia'' 1943. | birth_name = Maurice Louis Savin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|10|17|}} | birth_place = Moras, Drôme, France | death_date = 1973 | death_place = Paris | known_for = Painting | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }}

'''Maurice Savin''' (born '''Maurice Louis Savin'''; 17 October 1894 – 1973), was a French artist,<ref name="maurice-savin.fr">{{cite web|url=http://www.maurice-savin.fr/biographie.html |title=Biography: Maurice Savin (1894–1973) |publisher=Maurice Savin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318161611/http://www.maurice-savin.fr/biographie.html |archive-date=18 March 2011}}</ref> painter,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/askart/s/maurice_savin/maurice_savin.aspx|title=Maurice Louis Savin - Biography}}</ref> ceramicist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://manufacturedesevres.culture.gouv.fr/site.php?type=P&id=136&langue=2 |title=La Manufacture de Sèvres &#124; savin centrepiece, with la mandoline and la guitare, maurice savin, 1958 |website=manufacturedesevres.culture.gouv.fr |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204073926/http://manufacturedesevres.culture.gouv.fr/site.php?type=P&id=136&langue=2 |archive-date=4 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and tapestry-maker his works are included in many private and public collections.

==Biography== Maurice Savin was born in the Drôme in south-eastern France. He studied art before being conscripted into the French military in 1914. He was wounded twice, during World War I, being awarded the Croix de Guerre.<ref name="maurice-savin.fr"/>

After the war, Savin worked for various magazines and journals as an illustrator, during this period he continued to paint and had exhibitions in Paris at, for example, the Salon d’Automne. In 1933, he began working in ceramics, producing a mural for the Hôtel de Ville in Montélimar in 1936.<ref name="maurice-savin.fr"/>

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==External links== *[http://www.maurice-savin.fr/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106110138/http://maurice-savin.fr/ |date=2008-11-06 }}

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