Claude Garache (born 1929 or 1930) is a

French artist The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of French artists. See other article ...

. He has worked in

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vid ...

and

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...

. His principal subject is the female nude. Much of his work uses a single colour on a

monochrome A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale (typically digital) or black-and-white (typically analog). In physics, monochrom ...

background, very often blood-red on white.

Biography

Garache was born in Paris on 20 January 1929 or 1930. Between 1949 and 1959 he studied sculpture and drawing under the sculptor Robert Coutin. He spent time in the studios of Andre Lhote and

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...

, and also visited

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...

and worked in the sculpture studio of the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

.. He travelled frequently in the 1950s, in Europe and to the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

and the United States. In 1955 he worked as an artistic advisor to

Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director. He directed the classic movie musicals ''Meet Me in St. Louis'' (1944), ''An American in Paris'' (1951), ''Th ...

during the filming of '' Lust for Life'', his biography of

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...

. Garache later made sculptures for ''

L'Année dernière à Marienbad ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (french: L'Année dernière à Marienbad; released in the United Kingdom as ''Last Year in Marienbad'') is a 1961 Left Bank film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Set in a palace in a p ...

'' (1961), directed by

Alain Resnais Alain Resnais (; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included ...

Retrospectives

* 1966-1982 (oil on canvas), Musée Grobet-Labadié (Marseille), 1983 * 1965-1985 (etchings), Zilkha Gallery (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut), 1985

Public collections

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

, New York, New York City *

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was des ...

, Washington DC * Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut *

Madison Art Center The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and co ...

, Madison, Wisconsin * Evehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin * Cincinnati Museum * Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris *

Musée national d'art moderne The Musée National d'Art Moderne (; "National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. In 2021 it ranked 10th in ...

, Paris *

Fondation Maeght The Maeght Foundation or Fondation Maeght () is a museum of modern art on the ''Colline des Gardettes'', a hill overlooking Saint-Paul de Vence in the southeast of France about from Nice. It was established by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght in 1 ...

, Saint-Paul-de-Vence * Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris * Musée Cantini, Marseille *

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

, Paris * Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet, Paris * Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland * Bibliothèque nationale suisse, Berne *

Museum Het Rembrandthuis The Rembrandt House Museum ( nl, Museum Het Rembrandthuis) is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the well-known Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rij ...

, Amsterdam

References

Further reading and listening

Interviews and lectures

* Interview with Valère Bertrand, "Les arts et les gens", France-Culture, Radio France, 20 juillet 1992 * Interview with Alin Avila, "Les arts et les gens", France-Culture, Radio France, 22 novembre 1993 * Florian Rodari, Marie Du Bouchet, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Interviews with Claude Garache, Hazan, 2010. *

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was pr ...

, at Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 31 octobre 1985 * Jacques-Louis Binet, Ecole du Louvre, 10 janvier 2002

Books and essays

* Dictionary

Bénézit The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created ...

, Oxford Press University, 2011 *

Jean Starobinski Jean Starobinski (17 November 1920 – 4 March 2019) was a Swiss literary critic. Biography Starobinski was born in Geneva in 1920, the son of Jewish physicians Aron Starobinski of Warsaw and Sulka Frydman of Lublin. Both his parents left ...

, ''Claude Garache'', Flammarion, 1988 *

Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal '' L'éphemère''. Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychi ...

, ''Garache, Dessins'', Paris, Conférence et Adam Biro éditeurs, 1999 * ''Garache face au modèle'' (texts of

Raoul Ubac Raoul Ubac (31 August 1910, Cologne – 22 March 1985, Dieudonne, Oise) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver. He had various and irregular artistic training and travelled in Europe between 1928 and 1934. He worked mostly ...

, Florian Rodari,

Philippe Jaccottet Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Life and work After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...

, Roger Munier, Emmanuel Laugier, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat,

, Anne de Staël, Nicolas Pesquès, François Trémolières, Michael Edwards,

, John E. Jackson, Pierre Alain Tâche), La Dogana (Genève), 2006 * Dora Vallier, "Claude Garache", ''

Derrière le miroir ''Derrière le Miroir'' is a French art magazine created in 1946 and published until 1982. Art galleries, auction houses and booksellers often refer to this art magazine simply as D.L.M. or DLM. Aimé Maeght is the founder, editor and publisher. ...

'', Paris, Maeght, n 150, 1965 *

, "In Garache's Color", ''Garache'', février-mars 1974, Exhibition catalogue, Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 1974. *

Jacques Thuillier Jacques Thuillier, (March 18, 1928, Vaucouleurs, Meuse – October 18, 2011, Paris) was a French art historian specializing in 17th-century French painting. Thuillier was an honorary professor at the Collège de France, where he taught history ...

, "Notes brèves sur Claude Garache", ''Derrière le miroir'', Paris, Maeght, n 213, mars 1975 *

''Garache''
Exhibition Catalogue, Maeght, 1976. * Piero Bigongiari, "Arriva Nuvola Rossa : il pittore Claude Garache", ''L'Approdo Letterario'', éditions della RAI, n 77-78, XXIII, juin 1977 * Alain Veinstein, "Archéologie de la mère", ''Derrière le miroir'', Paris, Maeght, n° 237, janvier 1980. * Jean Frémon, "Une version du réel", ''Garache'', novembre 1983-janvier 1984, Exhibition catalogue, Marseille, Musée Grobet-Labadié, 1983 * Richard Stamelman
"The Incarnation of Red"
Exhibition catalogue, Prints 1965-1985, 17 October-24 November 1985, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University. *

Marc Fumaroli Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in th ...

, "Depuis longtemps, Vénus...", ''Repères. Cahiers d'art contemporain'', Paris, galerie Lelong, n°50, 1988 * James McAllister, "The Image and the Furrow: Yves Bonnefoy and Claude Garache," Symposium 45 (1991), 97-108. * Andrew Weiner, "Claude Garache", ''Spaightwood Newsletter'', Madison, Wisconsin, 15 novembre 1991 *

Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...

, Garache, juillet-août 1992, Exhibition catalogue, Orange, Musée d'Orange, 1992 * Michael Edwards, "Claude Garache: Painting and Repetition," an exhibition catalogue published by the Galerie Matisse, Institut Français, London, 1994. * Peter Schofer, "Painting Rewrites Poetry: Baudelaire Through the Eyes of Claude Garache," Graven Images 2 (1995), 21-27. * Judith G. Miller, "Bloodstone: Claude Garache and His Models," Graven Images 2 (1995), 7-10. * Andrew D. Weiner, Claude Garache, Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the release of Bleue V and Bleue VI by Spaightwood Galleries, 1995 {{DEFAULTSORT:Garache, Claude 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters Possibly living people Year of birth uncertain Painters from Paris 1920s births