Claude Garache
Galerie Maeght Poster
Specifications:
Lithograph
Published by Galerie Maeght
1980
20 x 26 inches
An artist’s artist, Garache was first recommended to Aime Maeght, the most important art-dealer in post-war France, by two of Maeght’s most important artists, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall.
Living and working in Paris, Claude Garache (b.1929) has achieved that balance of suprise and inevitability (the blending of an individual talent and a viable tradition) thay marks the works of Degas and Matisse, Derain and Giacometti. Looking at Garache’s oeuvre, we recognize works that immediately proclaim themselves as “classic”, yet which are more disturbing than we expect classic art to be. Rather than confronting the source of this disturbance, it is tempting to concentrate instead on Garache’s technical virtuosity. As a painter, Garache is a perfectionist, layering on wash after wash of color, building up depth and intensity, establishing both a ground and an almost 3-dimensional shape looming out of that ground. Garache is an established master of the aquatint, whose graphics are regularly included in the Bibliotheque Nationale’s five-year surveys of the most important work in prints and were similarly included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.