Claude Garache

Claude Garache (1929-2023) is a French artist. He has worked in painting, sculpture, illustration and engraving. His principal subject is the female nude. Much of his work uses a single colour on a monochrome background, very often blood-red on white.

Biography Garache was born in Paris on 20 January 1929. Between 1949 and 1959, he studied sculpture and drawing under the sculptor Robert Coutin. He spent time in the studios of Andre Lhote and Fernand Léger, and also visited Alberto Giacometti and worked in the sculpture studio of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.. He travelled frequently in the 1950s, in Europe and to the Middle East and the United States. In 1955, he worked as an artistic advisor to Vincente Minnelli during the filming of Lust for Life, his biography of Vincent van Gogh. Garache later made sculptures for L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais.

Retrospectives 1966-1982 (oil on canvas), Musée Grobet-Labadié (Marseille), 1983 1965-1985 (etchings), Zilkha Gallery (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut), 1985

Public collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin Evehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin Cincinnati Museum Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Musée national d'art moderne, Paris Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris Musée Cantini, Marseille Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet, Paris Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland Bibliothèque nationale suisse, Berne Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam