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




Biography


Garache was born in Paris on 20 January 1929: 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.: 253 . He travelled frequently in the 1950s, in Europe and to the Middle East and the United States. In 1955, he worked as an artistic advisor to Vincente Minnelli during the filming of Lust for Life, his biography of Vincent van Gogh.: 253  Garache later made sculptures for L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais.: 41 




Retrospectives


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




Public collections


Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Evehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Cincinnati Museum
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris
Musée Cantini, Marseille
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet, Paris
Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
Bibliothèque nationale suisse, Berne
Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam




References






Further reading and listening






= Interviews and lectures

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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

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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, Jean Starobinski, John E. Jackson, 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

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