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Colette Richarme (born 24 January 1904 in Canton (Guangzhou), China, died in Montpellier, 27 February 1991) was a French painter.
Biography
Richarme spent her childhood in China. Her mother, familiar with art, taught her to observe her surroundings and to draw from an early age. The sudden death of her father, a silk trader for a British firm, forced mother and daughter to return to France just before the First World War. They lived in Lyon and Albertville, where Richarme married in 1926. The couple's move to Paris in 1935 provided access to the workshops of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière where Richarme was a classmate of Louise Bourgeois. But it was in Montpellier that she really began her career as an artist, presenting her first solo exhibition in 1941. After the war, she maintained regular contact with Paris (exhibitions, annual salons) while actively participating in regional artistic life. Until the end of her life she continued her research in her Languedoc studio.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
In Paris: Galeries Bruno Bassano, Jacob, 55, Arlette Chabaud, la Roue, Rond-Point des Champs Élysées, Freddy Noël, Danièle Drouant
In Montpellier: In her lifetime, exhibitions every 2 years between 1941 and 1989
"Biographie". Richarme.com - The site of the painter Colette Richarme (1904-1991). Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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Dictionnaire de biographie héraultaise, Pierre Clerc et al., Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, 2006 et 2009
Bibliography
Richarme, Monographie, text by Robert Briatte, Jean-Louis Gourg, Max Rouquette, Lodève, La Jonque, 1984
Richarme, Journal d’atelier suivi de Parcours d’artiste by Bernard Derrieu, Pézenas, Domens, 2000
Richarme, Invitation à la mer, texts and gouaches selected and presented by Estelle Goutorbe, Marseille, Jeanne Lafitte, 2003
Colette Richarme, une artiste, une vie, une œuvre, Jean-Luc Bourges, Albertville, musée, 2007
Le Gard vu par les peintres, Frédéric Gaussen, Marseille, éditions Gaussen, 2009
Richarme, au-delà du blanc, Françoise Renaud, Condom, C.L.C. Éditions, 2010
L’Hérault vu par les peintres, Alain Laborieux et Robert Faure, Marseille, éditions Gaussen, 2012