Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy (born[1] 25 January 1905 – 26 September 1991) was a French artist and portraitist.
His artistic talent caused a brief hesitation between theatre and painting, but having chosen the latter, he entered the Académie Julian at the age of 18 and studied there with Paul Albert Laurens.
In Paris, he frequented the house of Félix Vallotton and met Bonnard and Vuillard who showed an interest in his work.
At the Salon des Tuileries, in 1936, he exhibited only portraits in a style so distinctive and discordant to current fashions that he was compared to a Philippe de Champaigne.
Mac-Avoy made portraits of many writers, artists and politicians including André Gide, Pierre Larousse,[4] Honegger, Mauriac, Picasso, de Gaulle, Béjart, and Johnny Hallyday and Arthur Rubinstein A friend of Henry de Montherlant, he illustrated several of that writer's luxury editions including La relève du Matin in 1952, La Ville dont le prince est un enfant in 1961 and Les Garçons in 1973.