Raymond Guerrier (1920-2002) Landscape Of The Surroundings Of Baux De Provence

The rough and emaciated Provence by the artist Raymond Guerrier.
As Auguste Chabaud said, "bones and muscle"; no artifice or frivolous or commercial embellishment, but only the essentials.
The sobriety of this work makes it effective and modern, it is produced in oil on canvas in a generous material, and proposed in a black frame of the American box type which measures 38.5 cm by 79 cm and 30 cm by 73 for the canvas alone.
In good condition, the work is signed lower left.

Self-taught, he worked in photoengraving before starting to paint in 1947. Recognition came quickly: he had his first personal exhibition in 1952, Galerie Stiebel in Paris. The following year, he won the prize for Young Painting and exhibited in London at the Redfern Gallery. In 1954, he moved to the Alpilles in Eygalières, looking for a bitter tranquility that shines through in his landscapes and still lifes.

Personal exhibitions

Stiebel Gallery, Paris, 1952, 1954, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958.
Drouant-David Gallery, Paris, 1953.
Redfern Gallery, London, 1953, 1955
Hammer Gallery, New York, 1957
Bost Gallery, Valence (Drôme), 1957
La Calade Gallery, Avignon, 1958
Simone Badinter Gallery, Paris, 1959.
Motte Gallery, Geneva, 1958-1966.
Herve Gallery, Paris, 1960, 1962, 1964.
Warrior retrospective, Musée de l'Athénée, Geneva, 19624.
Jouvene Gallery, Marseilles, 1964, 1967.
Galleria Arte Moderno, Caracas, 1964.
Malaval Gallery, Lyon, 1966, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1983..
Thoth Gallery, Avignon, 1967.
Tamara Pfeiffer Gallery, Brussels, 1967, 1975, 1977.
Paris Gallery, Paris, March 1968, 1970, 1971
Grand Mazel Gallery, Geneva, 1969.
River Gallery, Bordeaux, 1970, 1978.
Le Havre Museum of Fine Arts, 1971.
One hundred and fifteen paintings by Raymond Guerrier, Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis, March-May 1972.
Municipal cultural center of Aubagne, 1973.
Helias Gallery, Paris, 1973.
Galerie Ducastel, Avignon, 1973, 1974, 1976, July-August 1984 (Raymond Guerrier - Abandoning appearances without losing reality)1.
Warrior retrospective, Cellar of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape castle, 1974.
Town Hall, Arcueil, 1974.
Spetier Room, Salon-de-Provence, 1976.
Palace of arts and culture, Brest, 1977.
Suillerot Gallery, Paris, 1977.
Cultural Center of Chateauvallon, Toulon, 1977.
Gallery of Three Abalones, Aix-en-Provence, 1978.
Aigalier Hall, Martigues, 1978.
Jean Houdremont Cultural Center, La Courneuve, 1979.
House of Culture, Ajaccio, 1979.
Saint-Guillaume Gallery, Paris, 1979.
Olivier Theater, Istres, 1980.
Gallery L'escapade, Geneva, 1980.
Contrasts Gallery, Limoges, 1981.
French Institute in Cologne, 1981.
Town Hall, La Seyne-sur-Mer, 1981.
Lower Hall Gallery, Martigues, 1982.
Frank Ricci Gallery, Avignon, 1982.
Local action for the plastic arts of Longèves (Vendée), 1982.
Réattu Museum, Arles, 1984.
Chapel of the Grand Convent, Cavaillon, 1985, 1988.
Hélène Trintignant Gallery, Montpellier, 1986.
Milling Center, Mont-de-Marsan, 1986.
Flaran Abbey, Valence-sur-Baïse, 1987.
Cloister of the Cordeliers, Tarascon, 1987.
Alpilles Museum, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1988.
Berlioz Gallery, Sausset-les-Pins, 1989.
Carnot Gallery, Poitiers.
Senate Orangery, Luxembourg Palace, Paris, 1989.
Benedictine Palace, Fécamp, May-June 1990.
Florence Basset Gallery, Moulin de la Grande Bastide, Flassans-sur-Issole, March-April 1996, 2002
Paul Valéry Museum, Sète, July-September 1996.
Sabine Vazieux Gallery, Paris, 2007, 2009
Gallery 22, Coustellet, 2013.
Retrospective - Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Raymond Guerrier, Estrine Museum, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September-December 2020.
Collective exhibitions
Salon des Independants, Paris, 1947, 1949, 1950, from 1953 to 1957
Salon for under-thirties, Paris, 1948
Autumn Salon, Paris, 1951-1957
Salon in the rue de Seine, Paris, 1952.
Salon of Young Painting, Paris, 1953, 1954, 1955
Salon of sacred art, Paris, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958
Salon of painters witnesses of their time, Palais Galliera, Paris, 1954, 1956, 1957
School of Paris, Charpentier Gallery, Paris, 1954, 1956, 1957 1960, 1961.
Portraits by thirty young painters, Galerie Visconti, Paris, June 1955.
Biennial of Menton, 1955, 1957
Turin Biennial, 1955, 1957.
Face of childhood: Raymond Guerrier, François Heaulmé, Richard Bellias, Jean Commère, Jean Pollet, Philippe Cara Costea, Galerie Simone Badinier, Paris, 1956.
Salon Comparisons, Paris, 1956-1959
Biennial of young painting and young sculpture, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1956-1959.
World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow, July-August 1957.
Biennial of Young Contemporary Painting, Bruges, 1958.
Tuileries Salon, Paris, 1958, 1959
Bernard Buffet, Bernard Conte, Marcel Cramoysan, Jef Friboulet, Raymond Guerrier, Galerie Malaval, Lyon, 1964.
3rd Salon d'Angers, Raymond Guerrier and André Brasilier guests of honor, 1966.
Provence and painters of today, Granet Museum, Aix-en-Provence, 1967.
One hundred Provençal artists, Cantini Museum, Marseille, 1971.
Art and the city - Festival of painting-music-mime-poetry - Constantin Andréou, Antonio Guansé, Serge Labégorre, Jacques Lagrange, Robert Lapoujade, Jean-Jacques Morvan..., church of Saint-Émilion, September 1978.
21 large canvases by Raymond Guerrier - 27 sculptures by Constantin Andréou, Orangery of the Château de Meudon, November 1995
Group exhibition: Philippe Cara Costea, Simone Dat, Raymond Guerrier, François Heaulmé, Michel Thompson, Claude Venard, Galerie Florence Basset, Flassans-sur-Issole, September-November 1996.
Paintings from the 1950s-60s - Eduardo Arroyo, Henri Déchanet, Jacques Doucet, Raymond Guerrier, Alexandre Garbell... La Capitale Galerie, November 2008 - January 2009.
Views: a century of views on the Alpilles - Auguste Chabaud, Albert Gleizes, Raymond Guerrier, André Marchand, Mario Prassinos, Maurice-Élie Sarthou, René Seyssaud, Jacques Winsberg, Estrine Museum, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, March-May 2015
Twenty years of passion: Raymond Guerrier, Roger Lersy, François Heaulmé, Bernard Lorjou, Yvonne Mottet, Bernard Buffet, André Minaux..., Galerie Florence Basset, Flassans-sur-Issole, June-August 2015.
Provence, land of encounters between artists and writers, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, October 2015 - March 2016.
The rebels of modern art - Paris, the 1950s, Mendjisky-Schools of Paris Museum, Paris, October-December 2016
Young Painting - Paul Aïzpiri, Jean-Pierre Alaux, Bernard Buffet, Michel Ciry, Jean Commère, Bernard Gantner, Raymond Guerrier, Jean Jansem, André Minaux, Marcel Mouly, Michel Patrix, Paul Rebeyrolle..., Baron-Martin Museum, Gray (Haute-Saône), July-October 2017.


Awards and Recognition

Prize for Young Painting 1953.
Knight of Arts and Letters 1957.


Works in public collections
In Belgium
Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels.

In France:
Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, The rabbit, oil on canvas 100x81cm
Réattu Museum, Arles.
Calais Museum of Fine Arts, Still life with horse skull, oil on canvas 97x146cm.
André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre.
Sacred Art Center of Lille
Cantini Museum, Marseille, The olive trees, oil on canvas 60x92cm.
Museum of art and history of Meudon.
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, The ponies, oil on canvas 162x130cm, 1964.
National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
Pau Museum of Fine Arts, Bullfighting, oil on canvas 195x130cm
Sainte-Croix Museum, Poitiers, The beach of Croix-de-Vie, oil on canvas 89x116cm
National Fund for Contemporary Art, Puteaux, including deposits
Place Lucien Herr, oil on canvas 89x116cm, Embassy of France in the United Kingdom, London.
Landscape, oil on canvas 73x92cm, National Assembly, Paris.
The circus, oil on canvas, 130x162cm, sub-prefecture of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Denys-Puech Museum, Rodez, Still life with duck, oil on canvas, 1960
Museum of art and history of Saint-Denis.
Sacred Art Center of Lille.
French Embassy in London.


Luxemburg
National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg.

Swiss
Pully Art Museum (Switzerland)

United States
St. Louis Museum of Art (Missouri)

Japan
Tokyo Museum of Modern Art.

Venezuela
Caracas Museum of Fine Arts.