Claude Garache

Claude Garache
Born1929[1] or 1930[2]
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking

Claude Garache (1929[1]-2023) is a French artist. He has worked in painting, sculpture, illustration and engraving.[1][2][3] His principal subject is the female nude.[2] Much of his work uses a single colour on a monochrome background, very often blood-red on white.[4]: 163 

Biography

Garache was born in Paris on 20 January 1929[5]: 253 . Between 1949 and 1959, he studied sculpture and drawing under the sculptor Robert Coutin. He spent time in the studios of Andre Lhote and Fernand Léger, and also visited Alberto Giacometti and worked in the sculpture studio of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[5]: 253 [6]. He travelled frequently in the 1950s, in Europe and to the Middle East and the United States.[6] In 1955, he worked as an artistic advisor to Vincente Minnelli during the filming of Lust for Life, his biography of Vincent van Gogh.[5]: 253  Garache later made sculptures for L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais.[7]: 41 

Retrospectives

  • 1966-1982 (oil on canvas), Musée Grobet-Labadié (Marseille), 1983
  • 1965-1985 (etchings), Zilkha Gallery (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut), 1985

Public collections

References

  1. ^ a b c Garache Claude (in French). Paris: Galerie Maeght. Accessed April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Garache, Claude (born 1930), Painter, engraver, illustrator. Oxford Index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed April 2015.
  3. ^ Notice d'autorité personne: Garache, Claude (1929-....) (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed April 2015.
  4. ^ Yves Bonnefoy, Richard Stamelman (trans.) (1995). The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226064441.
  5. ^ a b c Jean-Louis Prat (2004). De lécriture à la peinture: 4 juillet-14 novembre 2004, Fondation Maeght (exhibition catalogue, in French). Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght. ISBN 9782900923344.
  6. ^ a b Claude Garache (in French). Paris: Le Bruit du temps. Accessed April 2015.
  7. ^ Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Florian Rodari, Marie Du Bouchet (2010). Entretiens avec Claude Garache (in French). Paris: Hazan. ISBN 9782754104029.
  8. ^ Claude Garache (French). New York: Museum of Modern Art. Accessed April 2015.
  9. ^ Le Noeud, (1964). Smithsonian Institution: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection. Accessed April 2015.
  10. ^ Belle de Tout le Monde, (1964). Smithsonian Institution: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection. Accessed April 2015.
  11. ^ Claude Garache, Paris (Paris), 1930: Yvie et Sauve 1977/1999 (in French). Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Accessed April 2015.

Further reading and listening

Interviews and lectures

  • Interview with Valère Bertrand, "Les arts et les gens", France-Culture, Radio France, 20 juillet 1992
  • Interview with Alin Avila, "Les arts et les gens", France-Culture, Radio France, 22 novembre 1993
  • Florian Rodari, Marie du Bouchet, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Interviews with Claude Garache, Hazan, 2010.
  • Yves Bonnefoy, at Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 31 octobre 1985
  • Jacques-Louis Binet, École du Louvre, 10 janvier 2002

Books and essays

  • Dictionary Bénézit, Oxford Press University, 2011
  • Jean Starobinski, Claude Garache, Flammarion, 1988
  • Jacques Dupin, Garache, Dessins, Paris, Conférence et Adam Biro éditeurs, 1999
  • Garache face au modèle (texts of Raoul Ubac, Florian Rodari, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Roger Munier, Emmanuel Laugier, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Jacques Dupin, Anne de Staël, Nicolas Pesquès, François Trémolières, Michael Edwards[citation needed], Jean Starobinski, John E. Jackson[citation needed], Pierre Alain Tâche), La Dogana (Genève), 2006
  • Dora Vallier, "Claude Garache", Derrière le miroir, Paris, Maeght, n 150, 1965
  • Yves Bonnefoy, "In Garache's Color", Garache, février-mars 1974, Exhibition catalogue, Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 1974.
  • Jacques Thuillier, "Notes brèves sur Claude Garache", Derrière le miroir, Paris, Maeght, n 213, mars 1975
  • Jean Starobinski, Garache, Exhibition Catalogue, Maeght, 1976.
  • Piero Bigongiari, "Arriva Nuvola Rossa : il pittore Claude Garache", L'Approdo Letterario, éditions della RAI, n 77-78, XXIII, juin 1977
  • Alain Veinstein, "Archéologie de la mère", Derrière le miroir, Paris, Maeght, n° 237, janvier 1980.
  • Jean Frémon, "Une version du réel", Garache, novembre 1983-janvier 1984, Exhibition catalogue, Marseille, Musée Grobet-Labadié, 1983
  • Richard Stamelman, "The Incarnation of Red", Exhibition catalogue, Prints 1965-1985, 17 October-24 November 1985, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University.
  • Marc Fumaroli, "Depuis longtemps, Vénus...", Repères. Cahiers d'art contemporain, Paris, galerie Lelong, n°50, 1988
  • James McAllister, "The Image and the Furrow: Yves Bonnefoy and Claude Garache," Symposium 45 (1991), 97-108.
  • Andrew Weiner, "Claude Garache", Spaightwood Newsletter, Madison, Wisconsin, 15 novembre 1991
  • Georges Duby, Garache, juillet-août 1992, Exhibition catalogue, Orange, Musée d'Orange, 1992
  • Michael Edwards, "Claude Garache: Painting and Repetition," an exhibition catalogue published by the Galerie Matisse, Institut Français, London, 1994.
  • Peter Schofer, "Painting Rewrites Poetry: Baudelaire Through the Eyes of Claude Garache," Graven Images 2 (1995), 21-27.
  • Judith G. Miller, "Bloodstone: Claude Garache and His Models," Graven Images 2 (1995), 7-10.
  • Andrew D. Weiner, Claude Garache, Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the release of Bleue V and Bleue VI by Spaightwood Galleries, 1995