Claude Garache

In 1948, Claude Garache carried out his first personal works. The same year, he received instruction from Robert Coutin, in drawing and sculpture. He attended the workshops of Fernand Léger and André Lhote, and the monumental art workshop of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts.

After numerous trips to Europe, the Middle East and the United States, where he worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in California, he settled in Paris in 1959 and began working opposite the model in the workshop. He then paid several visits to Alberto Giacometti

In 1962, Théodore Schempp became his dealer. His first exhibitions at Aimé Maeght were very noted, in particular by Chagall and Miró. From 1972, Raoul Ubac also noted the singular coherence of his work, “animated by a strange power working in successive thrusts towards the slow and progressive reconstitution of a unique body”.

Dora Vallier speaks of her painting of nudes as a “post-abstract” art. The work of etching has accompanied her painting since 1965. Friend of many writers, closely linked in particular to André Frénaud and Jacques Dupin, Claude Garache has illustrated several books of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet and Edmond Jabès.

"The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris acquired in 2012, a large format canvas by Claude Garache, Yvie et Sauve (painted from 1977 to 1999), and organized on this occasion the presentation of a dozen of his works painted from 1976 to 2003; the exhibition and its catalog took the name of a text by Yves Bonnefoy, In the Color of Garache It should be noted that Claude Garache was also, throughout his life, a remarkable engraver and lithographer. that we owe him numerous etchings and aquatints, as well as several posters. The work of Claude Garache is recognized above all by the double choice he made very early on to use the color red almost exclusively and, for its sole purpose. motif, the woman's body, which he most often painted on a white background, in an indefinite space, thus combining, in the drawing, an extreme concern for truth, and, through color, a form of unreality, in a work of deepening that could be considered infinite." – extract from Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat- Death of Claude Garache, painter and engraver- Conference edition. source https://www.editions-conference.fr/blogs/infos/deces-de-claude-garache