Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Germaine Richier was born on September 16, 1902, in Grans, France. She was an avant-garde sculptor and printmaker of provocative biomorphic figures. Richier studied art in Montpellier, went to Paris in 1926 and learned to work with bronze. Her talent was recognized with a solo exhibition in 1934 at the Galerie Max Kaganovitch, the Blumenthal Prize for Sculpture in 1936 and an exhibition her work at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937. By the 1940s, her figures had become allegorical and sometimes hybridized expressions of humanity and nature. A fascination with insect forms and night creatures is exemplified by her Praying Mantis in 1946. Richier worked also in ceramics, mosaic and printmaking and illustrated Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations in 1951 aof nd Contre terre in 1958, a volume of poems by her husband, René de Solier. Richier’s contribution to the art world was cut short by her early death from cancer in 1959. However, her oeuvre was resurrected in 2014 in an exhibition of nearly 50 of her works at the Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin in New York City as well as in a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
Mid-20th Century Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
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Early 20th Century French School Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
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1970s Pop Art Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
2010s Photorealist Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, Digital
Mid-20th Century American Modern Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Handmade Paper, Etching
2010s Photorealist Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Digital, Photographic Paper
20th Century Surrealist Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Cotton, Paper, Screen
1970s Surrealist Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
18th Century Old Masters Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
1960s Modern Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Cardboard, Paper, Screen
1950s Modern Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Ink, Woodcut, Paper
1970s Surrealist Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
1950s Germaine Richier Prints and Multiples
Etching, Paper