Andrée Le Coultre
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Andrée Le Coultre | |
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École des Beaux-arts de Lyon | |
Known for | cubist painting |
Spouse | Paul Régny |
Andrée Le Coultre (1917 – 6 July 1986) was a French painter
Life and education
Le Coultre and
Le Coultre's mission was to rapidly find direction and meaning to her work. She read a lot of books on art and artists, and was influenced by
Her plans at that point were that she and Régny would move either to the artist colony, or nearby Gleizes inAndrée Le Coultre died on 6 July 1986. On the 12th, according to the wishes of her husband Paul Regny, her coffin was at St. Joseph Church in Tassin, surrounded by the many paintings Le Coultre had painted on the walls of the Church.[7]
Career
Exhibitions
In 1946, René Deroudille exhibited a retrospective of Le Coultre's paintings at the Maison de la Pensée Française.[3][6] The couple started working that year according to the principles of Albert Gleizes, whom they finally met in 1947 and with whom they remained in regular correspondence, concerning paintings they submitted to him.[3]
Le Coultre exhibited regularly, sometimes in Paris at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, often in group exhibitions, and annually at the Lyon salons (the Salon d'Automne, the Salon Regain and starting in 1981 at the Salon du Sud-Est).[citation needed] Her works were regularly exhibited in galleries: at Paul Mauradian's Pantographe,[7] Folklore, Galerie de l'Institut in Paris, l'Oeil Ecoute, and, posthumously, at the Galerie Malaval and at Olivier Houg (Red Room).[10]}
She participated with her husband in the decoration of the new Saint Joseph Church in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune,[3] created a Virgin for the church of St. Anne de Menival (Lyon), and a large oil ("l'Imaginaire") for the Jacques Prévert pre-school in La-Demi-Lune.[citation needed]
In 2017, ten of her pieces were exhibited in the Musée de Beaux Arts de Lyon, honoring the donation of eighteen paintings to the museum by their son, Marc Régny.[3]
Teaching
In 1948 she participated as an instructor along with Paul Régny and Jean Chevalier in hosting a workshop for amateur artists, the Arc-en-ciel (Rainbow),[1] managed by Albert Gleizes. They stayed at Gleizes's home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.[11] In 1948, the couple spent a time at Gleizes Méjades property in Provence, giving a workshop on Gleizes's method and his pictorial techniques.[3]
From the late 40s on, Andrée Le Coultre drew on her personal experience of art and creation to convey painting and pictorial techniques to many students either in private lessons, in schools (private primary school Vincent Serre in La-Demi-Lune, and at the school of Social Service in Lyon. After 1968, she taught workshops to children via the administration of the local commune, and painting workshops for senior citizens.[citation needed]
In later years, she gave up teaching children due to her heart condition. She began producing small-format works with colored pencils.[citation needed]
Motifs and themes
After her debut with Antoine Chartres, she turned toward a more geometric style inspired by
Le Coultre was influenced by her 1946 meeting with Albert Gleizes, who subsequently followed her oeuvre. Le Coultre's work became characterized by
In the 1950s and 1960s, Andrée Le Coultre started exploring themes of her own, alternating non-figurative motifs with a return to specific topics such as religious subjects, where one can feel the influence of
Criticism and commentary
According to Olivier Houg, a return to a more figurative style in the 1960s and 1970s gave her the opportunity to show her talents in design and color.[2] In the notes for a 1978 exhibition, Le Coultre said that after following rigorous principles [of Gleizes] for some time, she was becoming more spontaneous: "Imagination is grafted onto construction to express a space where 'creatures' arise and evolve, sometimes in spite of myself. In this effort, the 'blueprint' is abandoned and each painting is an adventure. I don't know where I'm going to end up and who I'm going to encounter en route."[13]
In 1985, René Deroudille said that Le Coultre "takes us to passionate, unknown, far-away lands..." and went on: "With allusions to the deep, warm colors of stained glass, her colors announce their dominance..., scarlet shades with numerous, subtle modulations. Painting becomes a spiritual exercise, and participates in the deep universe of the collective unconscious, as explored and expressed by the poet."[14]
Jean-Jacques Lerrant, writing for the catalog of the Salon du Sud-Est exhibition, said, "What an itinerary! Born of Cubist rationality, tinged by Gleizes' esotericism, Andrée Le Coultre turns to flora, fauna, castles of dreams... Nothing has been in vain. She has the power to capture the moment of metamorphoses."[15]
Works
In 2017, eighteen of Le Coultre's works were donated to the Musée de Beaux Arts de Lyon by their son, Marc Régny, occasioning an exhibition of her works, juxtaposed with two by Albert Gleizes in the museum's permanent collection, Danseuse espagnole (1916) and Terre et ciel (1935).[3]
Held in the Musée de Beaux Arts de Lyon
- La Musique, 1945, oil on canvas
- Composition, 1951, oil on cardboard
- Corsage rouge, 1958, oil on hardboard
- Composition, 1960, oil on paper laminated onto cardboard
- Composition, 1963, oil on canvas
- Laitone, 1967, oil on canvas
- La Coiffure, 1968, oil on canvas
- Naissance de Gargantua, 1971, oil on paper laminated to cardboard
- Untitled, circa 1980–1986, oil on paper laminated to cardboard
- Vertiges, 1962, oil on canvas
Notes
- ^ "Gleizes a influencé mon travail vers une figuration structurée."[7]
- ^ ...geometric shapes treated in swatches of muted harmonies where ochres, blues and greens predominate, surrounded by open circles and framed by broken lines, giving rise to rhythm and cadence, the eye thus creating the shifts and rotations inherent in what was conventionally called the tableau-objet [i.e., painting as a subject in itself]. ...de formes géométriques traitées en aplats dans des harmonies sourdes où dominent les ocres, les bleus et le verts, cernées de cercles ouverts et encadrés de lignes brisées, entraînant rythme et cadence, l'œil créant ainsi les translations et rotations inhérentes à ce qu'il était convenu d'appeler le tableau-objet.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d Berthon 2009.
- ^ a b c Houg 2005.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i MBA Lyon 2017, p. 2.
- ^ a b Gouttenoire 2000, p. 208.
- ^ Moly-Sabata.
- ^ a b Sud-Est expo 2004.
- ^ a b c d e Gouttenoire 2000, p. 209.
- ^ Letter from Andrée Le Coultre to A.Gleizes of 17 April 1945, in the Gleizes archives at M.N.A.M., Paris
- ^ Berthon 2009, p. 5, avant propos (Forward).
- ^ CV Andrée Le Coultre, dossier d'artiste documentation du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. (in French)
- ^ Gauthier, Jean-Claude (2014). "Maison Ravier, Albert Gleizes et ses disciples : René-Maria Burlet, Jean Chevalier, Anne Dangar, Daniel Gloria, Andrée Le Coultre, Robert Pouyaud, Paul Regny". Les Amis de la maison Ravier. Morestel, France. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ Berthon 2009, p. 22–23.
- ^ ELAC 1978.
- ^ Deroudille 1985.
- ^ Jean-Jacques Lerrant, catalog of the Salon du Sud-Est 1986
Sources
- Berthon, Laurence; Gauthier, Jean-Claude (2009). Paul Regny et Andrée Le Coultre, peintres à Lyon au XX siècle [Paul Regny and Andrée Le Coultre, 20th century Lyon painters] (in French). Rochetoirin: Notre studio. ISBN 978-2-9535034-0-1.
- Deroudille, René (14 May 1985). "(untitled)". Lyon Matin.
- Histoire de la peinture à Lyon et en Rhônes-Alpes depuis 1865 [History of Painting in Lyon and Rhônes-Alpes since 1865] (in French). Catalogue Musée Paul Dini: La Collection, Musée Paul Dini.
- Gouttenoire, Bernard (2000). Dictionnaire des peintres & sculpteurs à Lyon aux XIXe & XXe siècles [Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Lyon in the 19th and 20th Centuries] (in French). Châtillon-en-Chalaronne: La Taillanderie. OCLC 248124906.
- Houg, Olivier (2005). Andrée Le Coultre Comme un fil sans fin [Andrée Le Coultre Like an Infinite Thread] (in French). Lyon: Red Room.
- "Andrée Le Coultre Paul Regny Présentation de la Donation du 18 mai au 06 aout 2017" (PDF). Musée de Beaux Art Lyon (press release) (in French). 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- "Moly-Sabata / Fondation Albert Gleizes: Résidence d'artistes: Depuis 1927" [Moly-Sabata / Albert Gleizes Foundation: Artists' Residence: Since 1927] (in French). Paris: Fondation Albert Gleizes. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- Salon du Sud Est - Andrée Le Coultre (Exhibition catalog) (in French), Lyon: Salon du Sud Est, 14 November 2004
- "exposition 'Langages au féminin'" [Exhibition "Feminine Languages"], E.L.A.C. Magazine (in French), 4, 1978
Further reading
- Brunel, Ph., "Lecoultre - Rhône Estampes" [Lecoultre Rhône Prints], Rhône estampes (blog) (in French), retrieved 16 March 2018
- Patrice Béghain, Une histoire de la peinture à Lyon, éditions Stéphane Bachès, Lyon, 2011, 368 pages ISBN 9782357520844.