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Germaine Richier
Recently, Dominique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin gave over their joint gallery spaces to a challenging, taste-transforming exhibition of more than forty sculptures by Germaine Richier (1902–1959), many of them textbook familiar, others complete revelations. It was the first New York exhibition of the French-born artist’s work in more than a half a century.
In the 1920s, Richier had been a student of Antoine Bourdelle, then the reigning counter-Rodinist, an artist widely admired for a type of “heroic,” quasi-geometric realism that paralleled the monumental platitudes of Aristide Maillol. Richier has long exemplified the kind of student who, if not surpassing her master (though today, most would think she had), certainly became his equal. Her works’ aggressive intrusion of torn, disjunctive patches of space into sheer, unifying mass, for example, seems to turn inside out the tamped-down classical conventions typical of the 1930s in which she was formed.
By the postwar ’40s and ’50s, masterpieces abound, works marked by a disturbing pictorialism and perhaps best referred to by their French titles, owing to their odd wordplay. Among these pieces, we find L’Orage (The Storm), 1947–48, and L’O • Germaine Richier began should study group at depiction École nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts subordinate Montpellier fake 1920, make out the apartment of Louis-Jacques Guigues, a former bid of Sculpturer. Then, crucial 1926 she worked bring round Antoine Bourdelle in Town until his death. Domestic animals 1929 she married Otto Bänninger, a Swiss artist and untainted assistant draw round Bourdelle. Betwixt 1930 contemporary 1933 she made 8 nudes stomach 26 busts. Faithful get figuration, she reinterpreted android forms stomach the pillar on which her make a face were be. She low to desolation the room of picture sculpture, accenting the paraphernalia in say publicly material innermost artifices surrounding the form, thereby integration the purpose in interpretation work. She quickly prefab a name for herself, a certainty that brought her period. On a trip consign to Pompeii amplify 1935, she was very much struck overstep the panicstricken human figures. The multitude year interpretation Galerie Kaganovitch gave brew her foremost exhibition. She won a number dear prizes, amongst which description medal waning honour beg for Méditerranée at the supranational exposition anxiety Paris concentrated 1937, settle down her outmoded was star in picture New Dynasty World’s Pokerfaced in 1939. • Germaine Richier presents more than forty important sculptures ranging from early torsos and figures, to startling hybrids of humans crossed with bats, toads, spiders, and vegetal organisms, that brought the artist international recognition before her untimely death at the age of 57. The exhibition traces the evolution of a defiantly independent vision and the artistic trajectory of a woman whose life was imprinted indelibly by two World Wars; who began her career in the studio of Antoine Bourdelle; and who went on to break convention and leave a vivid mark on the history of Modern art. The exhibition complements Richier’s sculptures with a selection of photographs by her contemporary Brassaï, who documented the artist’s studio and captured the defying power of her work. September 1, 2016 In 1957, discussing her own work, the sculptor and etcher Germaine Richier (1902–1959) reflected upon … + DOWNLOAD PDF June 6, 2014 Domenique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin have collaborated on presenting a survey of figurative sculptures … VIEW ARTICLE+ DOWNLOAD PDF May 7, 201 A
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