Emilie Charmy

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Emilie Charmy (born April 2, 1878 as Emilie-Espérance Barret in Saint-Étienne , Loire department , France ; † November 7, 1974 in Crosne , Essonne department ) was a French painter in the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Charmy was orphaned at the age of 5 , her older brother Jean was appointed her guardian. She enjoyed a civil education at a Catholic private school. As an adolescent, she showed a keen interest in music and painting, talents that were encouraged by her brother. Her professional training was that of a teacher. The siblings moved to Lyon in 1898 . There she studied with the painter Jacques Martin and got to know artists like Louis Carrand and François Vernay , who were both known for their flower pieces in Lyon. After a few years, Émilie and her brother went to Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine department , west of Paris.

In the following years, Charmy exhibited repeatedly in Paris, several times in the Salon des Indépendents of the Société des Artistes Indépendents , and in 1906 in the Salon d'Automne of the Société du Salon d'Automne . In 1910 she moved into two artist studios at 54, Rue de Bourgogne in Paris, where she lived and worked until the end of her life. In 1912 she had her first major solo exhibition in the Galerie Druet. In the same year she met the painter George Bouche. The couple had a son, Edmond, in 1915, but did not get married until the early 1930s. Since then, the Parisian gallery owner Berthe Weill has been closely connected to her through exhibitions.

In 1919 Charmy met Count Étienne de Jouvencel, who became an admirer of her work and introduced her to the literary and artistic circles of Paris. In 1922 she made the acquaintance of Colette , who wrote an introduction to an exhibition catalog for an exhibition of twenty of her paintings. One of the managing directors of Le Petit Parisien magazine , Eli-Joseph Bois, introduced her to political figures such as Édouard Daladier , Aristide Briand and Louise Weiss in the years that followed.

In the early 1930s, Charmy was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . After the Second World War it exhibited only rarely, it was forgotten by the public and the critics.

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SURNAME Charmy, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barret, Emilie-Espérance (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne , Loire department , France
DATE OF DEATH November 7th 1974
Place of death Crosne , Essonne department