Renée Aspe (3 October 1922 – 17 September 1969) was a French artist who lived and worked in Toulouse and Sète.

Life and work

Aspe had an eclectic body of work. She received acclaim while still alive. Many of her themes stem from her travels throughout France and in Morocco, Mexico, Germany, Spain and the United States. Her work was shown in galleries in Toulouse from 1945 to 1969, including at the Gallery Taur in 1960, 1963 and 1968, and the Gallery Chappe in 1961 and 1967. In 1970, her work was displayed at the

Musée des Augustins The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures represe ...

. Aspe painted children, street scenes, landscapes, still-lives and seascapes. Her work is included in the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Château de Sceaux, and the Museum of Grenoble.Monique Pujo-Monfran : Renée Aspe, les couleurs de la vie. Edit. MPM, 1999, 204 pp

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1922 births 1969 deaths 20th-century French painters {{France-painter-20thC-stub