Geneviève Claisse (; 17 July 1935 – 30 April 2018) was a French geometrical abstract painter.
A relative to
Auguste Herbin, her painting vocation was born through reading the magazine ''Art d'aujourd'hui'', tribune of geometrical abstraction.
Claisse was the great niece of abstract painter
Auguste Herbin, a founder of the Parisian association of artists
Abstraction-Création. Herbin saw Claisse's work for the first time when she was eighteen years old, and encouraged her to continue painting. In Herbin's mind, Claisse was "le successeur désigné par le destin et par l'hérédité" ("the successor appointed by destiny and heredity"). Like Herbin, Claisse's work shows a devotion to the ideals of formal purity and the perfection of execution. At this young age she worked tirelessly, often working at night after a day in the studio, carefully painting abstract forms on bold, colorful canvases.
Chronology
*1958 - First personal exhibits in the Galerie Caille in
Cambrai
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and Galerie Hybler in Paris.
*1959 - Moves to Paris and shares a studio with Herbin.
*1961 - First exhibit in the
Galerie Denise René in Paris where she will regularly exhibit in the following years.
*1967 - Museum of fine arts of
La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Biennale de Paris.
*1968 - "Art optique" at the museum of fine arts of
Oslo
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*1970 - Paris: Claisse, Galerie Denise René.
*1971 - Amsterdam: Claisse, Galerie d'Eendt.
*1972 - Modern art center of
Alençon
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*1978 - Paris: Claisse, Concepts multilinéaires, Galerie Denise René.
*1981 - Paris: Claisse, Geneviève Claisse, Galerie Denise René.
*1983 -
Palais des Beaux-Arts de
Lille
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*1989 -
Musée Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis (permanent collection).
In 1965, she focused her work on color (Cercles, ADN).
Further reading
* Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, Tauris (1979)
References
External links
Geneviève Claisse personal testimony
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1935 births
2018 deaths
Artists from Nord (French department)
Painters from Hauts-de-France
French women painters
French modern painters
20th-century French women artists