Colette Richarme Explained

Birth Date:24 January 1904
Birth Name:Colette Richarme
Nationality:French
Known For:Paintings and drawings
Alma Mater:Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Movement:Expressionism between figuration and abstraction

Colette Richarme (born 24 January 1904 in Canton (Guangzhou), China, died in Montpellier, 27 February 1991) was a French painter.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Richarme spent her childhood in China. Her mother, familiar with art, taught her to observe her surroundings and to draw from an early age. The sudden death of her father, a silk trader for a British firm, forced mother and daughter to return to France just before the First World War. They lived in Lyon and Albertville, where Richarme married in 1926. The couple's move to Paris in 1935 provided access to the workshops of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière[5] where Richarme was a classmate of Louise Bourgeois. But it was in Montpellier that she really began her career as an artist, presenting her first solo exhibition in 1941. After the war, she maintained regular contact with Paris (exhibitions, annual salons) while actively participating in regional artistic life. Until the end of her life she continued her research in her Languedoc studio.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: L’esprit testamentaire de Colette Richarme se diffuse à La Vignette . 2023-05-14 . midilibre.fr . fr.
  2. Web site: Biographie. Richarme.com - The site of the painter Colette Richarme (1904-1991). 26 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180227035949/http://site.richarme.free.fr/cms/traductions/anglais/Notice.angl.html. 27 February 2018. dead.
  3. Web site: Montpellier : l'artiste-peintre Colette Richarme ou la conversation des couleurs . 2023-05-14 . France 3 Occitanie . fr-FR.
  4. Web site: PONT-SAINT-ESPRIT Un documentaire sur la peintre Colette Richarme projeté ce mardi soir . 2023-05-14 . Objectif Gard . fr.
  5. Web site: La donation Colette Richarme. Musée Paul Valéry. 26 February 2018.