Emilie Charmy — Wikipedia

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Black and white reproduction of the portrait made of Jenny Sacerdote by Émilie Charmy
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Émilie Charmy , born Émilie Espérance Barret the in Saint-Etienne and died on 7 in Crosne (Essonne), is a French painter close to the Fauvism movement in its infancy [ first ] .

Born in Saint-Etienne in a bourgeois family of Alsatian origin, she becomes an orphan when her mother dies when she has 5 years . His big brother Jean becomes his tutor. She painted her first painting in 1895.

In 1898, they left to settle in Lyon. Until 1902, Émilie Charmy took private lessons from the Lyon painter Jacques Martin, the School of Fine Arts in Lyon being inaccessible to women.

With her brother, she leaves to settle in Saint-Cloud. In 1903, she exhibited at the Salon des Independents in Paris 8 of her works, she exhibited there every year until 1910. She was noticed by the gallery owner of Montmartre Berthe Weill. She participates in the fall show in Paris, of the At , where she presents still lifes, and a collective exhibition at the Berthe Weill gallery in .

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In 1906 she bounded with the fawn painter Charles Camoin with whom she made several trips: in Corsica, then in Toulon in 1906, Lyon, Toulon and Porquerolles in 1909 and Corsica and Cassis in 1910.

In 1910 she set up her workshop at 54, rue de Bourgogne in Paris [Ref. necessary] .

His first important personal exhibition was held, in 1911, at the Eugène Druet gallery.

She met Georges Bouche, a Lyon painter born in 1874, and followed him six months of the year in Marnat in Auvergne where she paints landscapes and self -portraits. In 1914 George Bouche went to war, she remained alone at Marnat, and in 1915 she gave birth to her son Edmond in Paris. They married in 1931.

Count Étienne de Jouvencel, his main collector after the war, supports it and promoted it in the literary and artistic world of the time. In 1921, he organized a personal exhibition at the galleries of works of art, at 50 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris, with great success. The catalog texts are written by Henri Béraud, Roland Dorgelès and Pierre Mac Orlan. The same year, for his other personal exhibition at the ancient and modern art gallery in Paris, the catalog was prefaced by Colette who became her friend. The subtle brush, without artifice, and guided by a lucid passion, it is this brush-la which attaches, […] of an infallible lechade, the drop of light with the varnished leaves of the camellia, the fat velvet to the velvet Petal of the rose, the sunny puff in the chorus branch and the mother -of -pearl plate on the epidermis of a hip or a well -stretched breast ». Colette will serve as a model on multiple times.

By the interpersonal skills of Élie-Joseph Bois, director of the Parisian Petit, Émilie Charmy is decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1926 [ 2 ] . He presents it to many political figures, Edouard Daladier, Aristide Briand and Louise Weiss, of whom she will be near.

In addition to her regular personal exhibitions in the Jeanne Castel and Charpentier galleries, she exhibited at the Modern Women’s Salon of which she is the secretary.

In June 1928, she participated in an important exhibition for the benefit of the Société des Amis du Musée du Luxembourg, entitled Portraits and figures of women from Ingres in Picasso . More than 180 paintings are presented, notably painted by Césanne, Boldini, Gaugin, Ingres, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec etc which demonstrates all its importance. She exhibits the portrait of the famous seamstress Jenny Sacerdote [ 3 ] .

In war, she withdrew to Auvergne with mouth that died in 1941. After the Liberation, she returned to her workshop in the rue de Bourgogne; She exhibited at Jeanne Castel in 1949 and 1952 at the Paul Pétridès gallery in 1963.

She died in 1974 at 96 years . It is buried in the cemetery of Celles-sur-Druolles near Georges Bouche.

His works are exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon: Corsican landscape , peonies And Still life in bananas as well as at the Paul-Dini Museum in Villefranche-sur-Saône: Flat And Self -portrait.

  • Kunsthaus Bühler à Stuttgart, To , May to , September to .
  • Paul Dini Museum of Villefranche sur Saône; at February 2009 [ 4 ] .
  • The Fratin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, August 2013 in [ 5 ] .
  • Émilie Charmy, Maurice Hensel, Edmond Heuzé, Max Jacob , Galerie Georges Térisse, 94 boulevard Haussmann, Paris, [ 6 ] .
  • Portraits and figures of women from Ingres in Picasso , exhibition organized for the benefit of the Society of Friends of the Luxembourg Museum, of the first is As of June 30, 1928.
  1. ↑ Emilie Charmy in Expo Catalog , Grapes the fralin, , 119 p. (ISBN  978-0-9835059-5-2 )
  2. ↑ Pinturrichio, «  Workshop booklet », The notebook of the week , ( read online )
  3. ↑ Arsène Alexandre, ‘ The rebirth of French art »
  4. ↑ ‘ Emilie Charmy: a painter’s destiny, at the Paul Dini Museum in Villefranche », Lyon capital , ( read online )
  5. ↑ ‘ Past exhibitions- Émilie Charmy » , on University of Virginia
  6. ↑ Béatrice Mousli, Max Jacob , “Grande Biographies” collection, Flammarion, 2005.

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