Fernande Cormier

Fernande Cormier, 1919

Fernande Victoire Cormier,[1] born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon and died on 15 August 1964 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a French painter.

Biography

Born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon, Fernande Cormier studied under Ferdinand Humbert and Émile Renard [fr].[2] She exhibited from 1913 onwards at the Salon des artistes français in Paris (of which she was a member), winning a silver medal and a travel grant in 1920, at the Salon d'automne from 1919 to 1926 and at the Salon des Tuileries in 1927.[2]

She was second grand prix de Rome in 1919.[3] She also participated in the exhibitions of the Society of Modern Women Artists in 1935-1936 and 1938. She traveled to Fez[4] and exhibited her Moroccan paintings in 1926.

Linked to Provence her native region, she made sets for the foyer of the Toulon Opera: in her painting of the Foyer Campra at the Opera, she depicts Massenet's Poème pastoral with a view of the Siou-Blanc plateau, a mountainous massif in the south-western part of the Var department. The subject, painted around 1922, has a symbolist influence.[5]

She also made sets for the town hall of Vincennes around 1932–1935.[6][7]

There is truth and accent in Miss Fernande Cormier's portraits.

— Alfred Louis Edmond Vallette[8]

List of works

  • Le collier de jasmin, oil on canvas, 64 x 55 cm.[9]
  • Le sculpteur, oil on canvas, 135 x 105 cm.[10]
  • Les pins, 72 x 85 cm.[11]
  • Femme marocaine dans son intérieur
  • Bateaux dans la baie, oil on canvas, 43 x 53 cm.
  • Le chat qui dort, oil on canvas, 61 × 50 cm, Gray (Haute-Saône), Musée Baron-Martin [fr].
  • Café en Sidi Bou Saïd, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.[12]
  • Portrait de jeune homme à son bureau, oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm.

References

  1. ^ "Résultats des concours : feuilles de valeurs des élèves en peinture et en sculpture pour l'ensemble de leur scolarité. Début XX s. 1 e". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  2. ^ a b Les Arts français: arts, métiers, industrie (in French). 1919.
  3. ^ Agence photographique, Agence Rol (1919). "Mlle Fernande Cormier, second grand prix de Rome de peinture en 1919". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  4. ^ "Mlle CORMIER (Fernande)Peintre, (1920-1921)". FranceArchives (in French). Archives nationales. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  5. ^ "Foyer Campra - Opéra de Toulon". www.operadetoulon.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  6. ^ "Hôtel de ville de Vincennes". monumentum.fr. Monumentum. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  7. ^ "Vassiliev Foundation: Individual: Fernande CORMIER (French, Toulon 1888– 1964 Sanary) [Fernande CORMIER ]". ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  8. ^ Vallette, Alfred Louis Edmond (1929). Mercure de France (in French). p. 220.
  9. ^ "Le collier de jasmin". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  10. ^ "Le sculpteur". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  11. ^ "Les pins". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  12. ^ "Café en Sidi Bou Saïd". www.artnet.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
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