Renée Théobald
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Renée Théobald | |
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| Add a Photo Théobald in her workshop, Paris, 1965 | |
| Born | 7 March 1926 Paris, France |
| Died | 30 July 2014 (aged 88) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism, École de Paris |
Renée Théobald, born on March 7, 1926 in Paris, is a French figurative, post-impressionnist painter associated with the post-war École de Paris, known as the Nouvelle École de Paris. She died in Paris on July 30, 2014, aged 88.
A painter in her own right
Renée Théobald entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1946. From 1948 onwards, she was a regular participant in the major Parisian Salons, which each year showcased trends in French painting. Her first solo exhibition took place in Paris in 1951.
In the 1960s, she embarked on an international career in Europe, Japan and above all the United States, where she exhibited for almost fifty years.
She painted with a knife and signed her birth name, without giving her first name, so as to be considered, not as a “woman painter” burdened by the prejudices of the time, but as a painter in her own right, while also being a wife and mother of five children. The choice of the figurative
In the early 1960s, art in France was dominated by abstraction. Théobald chose to preserve her own figurative language and exhibit in the United States. In 1963, she was invited by the De Young Museum in San Francisco to showcase her art. There, she presented 40 landscapes, orchestras and streets of Paris, earning her comparisons with the greatest. These paintings were later shown at the Miami Museum of Modern Art. The same year, she exhibited in Beverly Hills, followed by her first one-woman show in New York in 1964.
In December 1968, Hal Boyle of the Associated Press wrote an article about this French woman painter, whose figurative canvases are like windows opening onto the world, which was reprinted in over 300 newspapers across the United States: « I paint to communicate, to be understood [...] Abstract painters speak a language that requires a dictionary that most people don't have. » She paints her travels and wants to « make people want to walk through her canvases ».
After San Francisco and Miami, Théobald's American career extended from New York to Washington, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and, above all, Dallas and Houston, Texas, where she exhibited regularly. Her American career lasts from 1963 to her death in 2014. Her first posthumous exhibition was held in Houston.
Over fifty years of painting
Théobald's work is abundant: over 3,500 canvases depicting landscapes in France, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America... Sunny places inspire her paintings. Cities, countryside, markets, ports and shores, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. She paints the France she loves: under the skies of Brittany, the sun of Provence, on the paths of Alsace, in the Normandy countryside, the vineyards of Burgundy... She paints Paris with its quays, squares and bridges, from which she draws lithographs.
Théobald was also renowned for her orchestras, several of which won awards.
Museum Collections
Several of her paintings are in museum collections: * In France, the Musée de la Ville de Paris.
- In England, the City of London Museum.
- In Algeria, the Musée de Béjaïa.
- In Portugal, the Museu de Ovar.
- In the United States, the De Young Museum in San Francisco.
- Most of her work is in private collections in Europe, Japan and the United States.
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