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Copyright the artist | | | Garcin, Laure (1896 - 1978) France
Composition, 1933
Oil on canvas; 47 x 55 cm Surrealism
UID 102-213
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Biography
French painter related to the Abstraction-Création movement, born in Paris. At the end of the 40s, she directed short films with poems by Rimbaud, Saint-John Perse, and other poets. From 1950-60, Garcin gave lectures at the French national museums. From 1927 to 29 she participated in the Salon d'Autumne, in Paris and was a member of the Committee of the Association des Surindépendants from its beginning. The artist exhibited with the Abstraction-Création Group, from 1935-37. Her first solo exhibitions were in Paris, in the Galleries Vignon and Jeanne Bucher, followed by others, including in 1957, a show with a text by Gaston Bachelard. Her work from 1948 incorporates automatic writing techniques to free the secrets of the subconscious.
Bibliography
Abstraction Création, 1978 Published by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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