Jeanne-Henriette Tirman (1875, in Charleville-Mézieres ( Ardenne) – 30 October 1952, in

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(Hauts-de-Seine)) was a French woman painter and

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Biography

Henriette Tirman was a

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painter, printmaker and illustrator with an association with figures of the

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. She was the daughter of doctor Charles-Louis-Henry Tirman and Berte Hanonet de La Grange and also the niece of Senator

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(1837–1899). She lived in the family of her brother, Councillor of State Alexandre-Louis-Albert Tirman (1868-1939) in Paris, 22 rue de l'Yvette. Her art was influenced by Cézanne. She painted in a manner that respected Cézanne's ideas of logical composition, simple tonality, solidity of volume, and distinct separation of planes. While

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represented the reflective and rationalized aspects in the group, Tirman embodied a more spontaneous and instinctive style. The painter exhibited at the Salon de Champs-Élysées starting in 1897. In 1900 she had participated at the Exposition Universelle of Paris. Since 1906 to 1951 she exhibited her paintings at the

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and at the Salon

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Since 1907 exhibited at the

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where her paintings were put together with those of

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, Félix Vallotton and other artists. In 1915 she participated at the Exhibition of ''French and Belgian Art''

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. In 1919 she was working on illustrations of La Gerbe periodical in

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technique together with

, Henri Ottmann and other painters. In 1920, Tirman exhibited at the Gallery Marcel Bernheim together with

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and others. Since 1920s Henriette Tirman exhibited at the annual

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in Paris. In 1933 she took part in ''Salon de Echanges''. At the same time, in accompany with her friend Sonia Lewitska (1880-1937), she helps André Fau and Francis Thieck in room decoration suggesting services of painters from her closest circle: Raoul Dufy,

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, André Hellé and Jean Marchand. Thereby she supported her friends in tough times of economic crisis in the country. Also as

she was part of group of artists called ''Artistes de ce Temps'' and exhibited at the

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in 1935. In 1937, Henriette Tirman with friends creates in her house (Paris, 22 rue de l'Yvette) the ''Society of Friends Sonia Lewitska'', which organized in 1938 two retrospective exhibitions of the artist in the ''Gallery Sagot - Le Garrec''. After decease of her brother in 1939 she moves to Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise), to madam Berthe-Marie Cazin wife of ceramist Jean-Michel Cazin and lives in her house at 30 avenue de Bellevue. She was rewarded with the rank of Officier d'Academie.

Illustrations

* '' La Bhagavadgìta'' * '' Bodhicaryavatara'' *

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, ''La Marche à la lumière'' *

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, ''Lettres du Japon'' (design of pages) *

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, ''Portraits de femmes'' *

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, Bertrand Guégan (1892-1943); ''L'almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1920-1922, Dédié aux vrais Gourmands Et aux Francs Buveurs'' (1921)Notice ''WorldCat''sudocBnF
Engraved on wood and unpublished drawings of:

, J. Marchand, R. Dufy, Sonia Lewitska, de Segonzac, Jean Émile Laboureur, Friesz, Marquet, Pierre Laprade, Signac, Louis Latapie,

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, Henriette Tirman and others.´ * La Gerbe (Nantes),

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References

Notes

* Bénézit, 1976 : Tirman ou Tirmon (Jeanne Henriette)

External links

"Works by Henriette Tirman (1875-1952)", Pictify

Collection de dessins du 19e siècle, atelier Henriette Tirman, atelier Maurice Lang. Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Centre de documentation et de recherché du Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou

Le Petit Parisien (Paris) - evening daily newspaper; Salons 1920-1940

Catalogue de luxe of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) p.150, (n°509)
archive.org
Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2006
site Oxford Index (subscription or library membership required)
Petit Parisien (Paris); 1920, P.2, Salons et Expositions
BNF
Le Temps, 1930, Le Salon d'Automne p.4, Sale XVII
BNF
Comoedia (Paris), 1935-04-11, ''Une exposition qui nous oblige à méditer sur le cubisme éternel''
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