42 Facts About Marie Raymond

Marie Raymond was an abstract painter from the Tachisme movement in the 50s.

Marie Raymond would go on to become a prominent social figure in the Parisian post-war movement until the death of Yves Klein which had a profound impact on her life and art.

Marie Raymond was born on 4 May 1908 at La Colle-sur-Loup in the South of France.

Marie Raymond's father was a pharmacist and owned a dispensary which the family-owned for 40 years.

Marie Raymond attended boarding school at the school of the Blanche de Castille in Nice.

Marie Raymond's time spent in Stoppelaere's studio had a profound influence on her connection to art.

Marie Raymond discovered Picasso's work during the war which urged her to dive into abstraction.

Marie Raymond started making references to the impressionist and surrealist eras in the way she manipulated colors.

Marie Raymond started adopting a technique of abstract and non-figurative art, abstaining from geometric art and instead focusing on linear techniques.

Marie Raymond continued to use strong colors but ensured to keep the colors within the shapes creating homogenous paintings.

In 1945, Marie Raymond participated in her first major exhibition at the 'salon des surindependant'.

Marie Raymond recreated this meeting point for post-war artists by opening up her apartment studio rue d'Assas every Monday for all her friends in the art sphere to meet.

The 'Lundis de Marie Raymond' assembled many French and European artists, art critics, photographers, and gallery owners.

The 'Lundi de Marie Raymond' demonstrated that she did not only have an artistic impact with her art but in the artistic social sphere.

Marie Raymond created a sphere and center for exchange which helped forge many artistic relationships and collaborations.

Marie Raymond did not solely invite artists representing abstract art in the 50s to her weekly Monday nights, she additionally invited young avant-guard French artists.

Marie Raymond held an important relationship with these artists of the 60s with whom she kept strong relationships throughout her life.

Between 1939 and 1958 Marie Raymond published numerous chronicles on abstract art in Paris.

The chronicle was a way for Marie Raymond to defend her movement and what it stood for.

Marie Raymond talked about her visits to exhibitions or in galleries displaying abstract artists throughout Paris.

Marie Raymond's critiquing and outlook of her friend's work showed her uniqueness and true devotion to art.

Marie Raymond used her chronicle to bring light to Dutch painters in the Parisian scene such as the Bram brothers, Nicolas Warb, Geer van Velde and Christine Boumeester.

Marie Raymond ended her work with Kunst en Kultuur in 1958 as it coincided with the fall of the abstract movement.

Marie Raymond believed that it was time for her son's new generation to take over.

Marie Raymond published in a Belgian chronicle called +-o between 1976 and 1983.

Marie Raymond used her platform at that time to defend the nouveau realism movement that her son belonged to.

Marie Raymond exhibited her work alongside Arp, Domela, Magnelli, and Poliakoff at a traveling exhibition called 'Klar Form - 20 artists of the Parisian school' organized by Denise Rene.

In 1952, Marie Raymond was selected to take part in the 'salon de Mai' presented at the Kamakura museum in Japan.

Finally, Marie Raymond was offered a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art of Kamakura.

In 1959, Marie Raymond was presented alongside her son in Germany at the inauguration of the Gelsenkirchen Opera.

Finally, in 1960, Marie Raymond received the Marzotto prize alongside Pierre Dmitrienko.

Marie Raymond had a profound impact on Yves' outlook on art.

Marie Raymond was deeply inspired by his mother's work, especially in terms of her use of color.

Marie Raymond helped propel Yves's career, especially through her weekly Monday sessions.

The second important impact Marie Raymond had on Yves was their shared interest in the Rosicrucianism Roman Catholic Church.

Marie Raymond combined her faith and her vibrant colors to enable her viewers to transcend into the material world.

Marie Raymond's aim was for viewers to enter the spiritual world through the windows of colors in her work.

Marie Raymond is said to have never recovered from his death.

Marie Raymond practiced yoga and had been introduced to Eastern spirituality and meditation by her brother-in-law.

Marie Raymond shifted the abstract space she created during the 1950s to two figures crossed by elaborated spaces in structural manners.

Marie Raymond died in 1988 in Paris and was buried in the cemetery in La Colle-sur-Loup alongside Yves.

Marie Raymond's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.