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Marcel Gromaire
"My mission in painting is to give art a permanent and human image."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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L'artiste, né dans le Nord, participa avec Lurçat à la renaissance de la tapisserie à Aubusson. Le peintre, graveur, décorateur, illustrateur et, donc, cartonnier français Marcel Gromaire, est mort à Paris le 11 avril 1971. Il repose au repose au cimetière de Noyelles-sur-Sambre (59). En son hommage, avec respect, cette fleur de pissenlit.
"Gromaire ? C'est un chêne qui semble, dès le début, avoir su qu'il était un chêne." - Jacques Villon
"Je crois qu'un tableau est, d'abord, un don du coeur, un transfert de forces vives." - Marcel Gromaire
"Ma mission de peintre est de donner de l'art une image permanente et humaine. Ma peinture n'est pas faite « pour faire joli ». " - Marcel Gromaire
"Individualiste farouche, Marcel Gromaire a peint des villes, mais aussi des champs, des ouvriers et également des grands bourgeois, des maisons closes et des tableaux religieux. Il a tâté de tout, du pointillisme, du cubisme, sans rien adopter de ce qu’avaient inventé ses camarades. Même aux écoles, il fut rétif, préférant aux Beaux-Arts les « académies libres » de Montparnasse, où il prit des leçons d’Henri Le Fauconnier, cubiste aujourd’hui injustement négligé, et d’Henri Matisse." - Harry Bellet
"Un solitaire de la peinture, pudique, secret, méditatif, difficile à approcher." - Philippe Bouchet
"Est humain ce qui hausse l’Homme au-dessus de sa condition misérable, ce qui le libère, ce qui l’incite à ne pas croupir. Est humain ce qui va au fond des problèmes. Est humain ce qui incite à comprendre, ce qui est bienfait, ce qui est don. Est humain ce qui est généreux." - Marcel Gromaire
Notes of biography
Marcel Gromaire was born in 1892 in Noyelles-sur-Sambre in the north of France. He visits the countries of northern Europe of which the atmosphere profoundly influences his work. At a young age he goes to Paris and frequents many different Art Academies - Colarossi, Ranson and La Palette - and exhibits in 1911 at the Salon des Independents. Marcel Gromaire receives advice from Matisse and becomes passionate about roman, gothic and primitive art. He does his military service in 1913, and is wounded in combat in 1916 and will remain mobilized until 1919. He publishes drawings on the war, in ‘Le Crapouillot’ from 1916-1918.
Friend with Laboureur, Marcel Gromaire starts his engraving on wood in 1918. Then towards 1921 he engraves on copper plates. Gromaire takes the position of a classical painter and represents his era in ‘Modern Art and Notes of Art Today’ that he publishes in 1919. He decides to paint figurative and realistic works and insists on the importance of the subject. His first solo exhibition is organized in 1921. He paints with somber tones, expressive canvases about the modern town and man who lives there. The war remains one of the themes that he tackles; he also paints portraits and female nudes.
In 1934 he publishes a manifesto in the magazine “Esprit" "Art, the Invention of the Concrete”. In 1937 the artists paints murals for the Universal Exposition in Paris. Gromaire participates in the liberation of Paris in 1944 and 4 years later becomes vice-president of the National Union of Intellectuals, an organization that stemmed from the Resistance.
The still-lives, nudes and social subjects will be the themes of a whole life. Gromaire will draw in a constant style, drawings of nature or from memory - he will illustrate numerous works. Tinted engravings also play an important role in his work. Gromaire becomes a teacher at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris from 1950-1968.
Gromaire is in a league of his own, thanks to his mysterious and serious craftsmanship. He died in Paris in 1971.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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*« L’oeuvre gravé de M. Gromaire », 2 Vol., François Gromaire, Ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1976
*« L’oeuvre peint », F. Chibret-Plaussu & F. Gromaire, Ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1993
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To read about the artist :
- « G. », collectif, in Le Point revue artistique et littéraire, n°50, déc. 1954
- « Gromaire », M. Zahar, Ed. P. Caillier, Lausanne, 1961
- « Gromaire », Jean Cassou, cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1963
- « Marcel Gromaire », MAM de la Ville de Paris, 1980
- « M. G., 1892-1971, l’oeuvre gravé » Ville de Gravelines Ed. Westhoek 1980
- « Gromaire, 50 années de dessin jour après jour » Galerie Présidence, Paris, 1989
- « Réalistes des années 20 », S. Lefèvre., cat., Ed. Musee-Galerie de la Seita, 1998
- R. Rimbert - M. Gromaire : un dialogue », coll., cat., Ed. Nice Musées, 2007
- « Nus en quête d'idéal - L'érotisme chez M. G. », F. Chappey, Somogy Ed. d'art, 2011
- « Gromaire - a study in french expressionism », coll., cat., R. S. Johnson Fine Art, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « L’Art, invention du concret », in la Revue « Esprit », 1934
- « Brefs écrits sur l'art », coll., Ed. Mercure de France, 1999
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's dedication
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Marcel Gromaire
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
L'artiste, né dans le Nord, participa avec Lurçat à la renaissance de la tapisserie à Aubusson. Le peintre, graveur, décorateur, illustrateur et, donc, cartonnier français Marcel Gromaire, est mort à Paris le 11 avril 1971. Il repose au repose au cimetière de Noyelles-sur-Sambre (59). En son hommage, avec respect, cette fleur de pissenlit.
"Gromaire ? C'est un chêne qui semble, dès le début, avoir su qu'il était un chêne." - Jacques Villon
"Je crois qu'un tableau est, d'abord, un don du coeur, un transfert de forces vives." - Marcel Gromaire
"Ma mission de peintre est de donner de l'art une image permanente et humaine. Ma peinture n'est pas faite « pour faire joli ». " - Marcel Gromaire
"Individualiste farouche, Marcel Gromaire a peint des villes, mais aussi des champs, des ouvriers et également des grands bourgeois, des maisons closes et des tableaux religieux. Il a tâté de tout, du pointillisme, du cubisme, sans rien adopter de ce qu’avaient inventé ses camarades. Même aux écoles, il fut rétif, préférant aux Beaux-Arts les « académies libres » de Montparnasse, où il prit des leçons d’Henri Le Fauconnier, cubiste aujourd’hui injustement négligé, et d’Henri Matisse." - Harry Bellet
"Un solitaire de la peinture, pudique, secret, méditatif, difficile à approcher." - Philippe Bouchet
"Est humain ce qui hausse l’Homme au-dessus de sa condition misérable, ce qui le libère, ce qui l’incite à ne pas croupir. Est humain ce qui va au fond des problèmes. Est humain ce qui incite à comprendre, ce qui est bienfait, ce qui est don. Est humain ce qui est généreux." - Marcel Gromaire
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