Claude Venard

(French, 1913–1999)

nature morte aux poires, pichet rouge et tournesols by claude venard

Claude Venard

Nature Morte aux poires, pichet rouge et tournesols, 1950

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poisson lune by claude venard

Claude Venard

Poisson Lune, 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1913
Born in Burgogne, central France
1930
Began to take evening classes in painting at the École des Arts Appliqués
1935
After six years of conscientious study, he was forced, in order to support himself, to spend several years working as a restorer at the Louvre Museum

Exhibitions

2000
Hommage à C. Venard, Saltiel Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (solo)
1999
Gallery de L'université, Lyon, France (solo)
La Belle Angèle Gallery, Lyon, France
Les Peintres de la Marine, Saint-Paul Gallery, Lyon, France
1998
Petits Formats, Saltiel Gallery, Le Castellet, France
Casadai Gallery, La Chaise Dieu, France (solo)
Saltiel Gallery, Le Castellet, France (solo)
1997
Christiane Vallé Gallery, Clermont Ferrand, France (solo)
Cloitre Saint-Michel Gallery, La Rochelle, France (solo)
First Evian Art Show; Symphonie en Blanc Majeur, Saint-Paul Gallery, Lyon, France

Public Collections

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Sao Paulo
Tate, London

Literature

1976
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, tome 10, E.BENEZIT, Ed. Gründ, Paris
1969
André SALOMON, Catalogue de l’exposition « Vénard », Galerie Vercel, Paris
1962
André SALOMON, Claude Vénard, Fischbacher, Paris
1957
Bernard DORIVAL, Les peintres du XXè siècle, Tisné, Paris
1949
René HUYGHE, Les artistes contemporains, Tisné, Paris