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Stamp by Christine Boumeester
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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!
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A tribute to Christine Boumeester
Christine Boumeester s'éteint à Paris le 10 janvier 1971. Elle repose, au côté de son mari, Henri Goetz, au cimetière Montparnasse (12ème division). Celui-ci avait souhaité faire représenter une oeuvre caractéristique de sa femme sur sa tombe, tombe qui deviendra en 1989 la dernière demeure du couple. En hommage, nous déposons une fleur pleine de soleil, simple et discrète.
"Dans la peinture de Christine Boumeester beaucoup de secrets sortent de leur cachette pour être éclairés par son soleil. Ce qui m'attire, c'est le spectacle du rêve qui entoure ses toiles ; en quelque sorte elle est la femme spirituelle de la grande aventure de l'art pictural." - Francis Picabia
"Je voudrais une peinture avec les portes et les fenêtres ouvertes." - Christine Boumeester
"Son oeuvre présente une unité dans l'inspiration, une persévérance dans l'approfondissement, dont il y a peu d'exemple. Je ne mets pas Christine Boumeester à une moindre altitude." - Vercors
"L'on imagine Christine Boumeester souriant doucement, ironiquement peut-être, quand les masses colorées sous ses yeux amusés croient pouvoir mettre en paix, dans la lumière du jour, les luttes violentes du monde de la nuit." - Bachelard
"Boumeester . . . maintenant, ce dont je veux me souvenir d'elle échappe aux mots ; mais je le trouve sans peine au plus obscure, au plus muet du beau jardin abandonné." - Pierre Soulages
"C'est dans son monde féerique à la fois spontané et réfléchi, ultra- sensible mais solidement charpenté, intime mais partagé, que nos pensées les plus ailées peuvent y prendre leur essor en toute liberté." - Henri Goetz
Notes of biography
Annie Christine Boumeester, who often sign her works by the only firstname Christine, was born in Batavia (today Djakarta - Indonesia) in 1904. Her family, originally from Holland had lived in the colonies for five generations. After her family lived few years in Sumatra, it turned over definitively to Holland in 1921 (The Hague).
Very young, the child lived with the passion of drawing. From 1922 to 1924, she studied to The Hague’s Beaux-Arts; she particularly learnt how there to engrave. She got the drawing professor diploma but she never taught. She spent few months in the south of France (Nice, 1925), then opened an atelier in Amsterdam where she worked under Reuter’s painter advices.
She discovered several countries, settled down in Texel island, stayed in Germany, and organized her first personal exhibition in Amsterdam year 1935 (Gallery Santee Landweer). This same year, Christine Boumeester settled down in Paris where she met, married and shared all her life long with Henri Goetz. She exposed in several Parisian galleries and her first one was organized in Paris, in 1937.
After a short fantastic art time, she began abstract compositions, probably influenced by Hans Hartung. She got a discreet but attracting character, and she struck up friendship with many artists: Hartung, Kandinsky, Schneider, Gonzalez, Vieira da Silva and Szenès, Breton, Eluard, Ubac, De Staël, Picabia, Picasso, Lam or Arp were friends. From 1939, Christine Boumeester was represented by the Gallery Jeanne Bucher.
With the war, she left with her husband for Carcassonne where they joined up the Belgian surrealist group (Ubac, Magritte, Scutenaire). The couple evolved in secret and worked for Resistance. They created, with Ubac and Dotremont, the review “La Main à Plume”. Shown to German as resistants, Goetz leave for Nice, thus joining De Staël, Picabia, Arp and Magnelli. Christine Boumeester encouraged De Staël to create abstract painting.
From Immediate post-war time to her death, she was exhibited forty times specially in Parisians Salons too. The artist illustrated many works, carried out tapestries and mural decorations, translated in French “Point Ligne et Surface” from Kandinsky (1962).
Naturalized French in 1949, Christine Boumeester died in 1971. Her art distinguished by its delicate ranges and major blacks, all in suggestion and modulation, collected before all the significant atmosphere of perceived realities.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
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.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Portrait de C. Boumeester », Alain Resnais, court métrage, Film Français, 1946
- « C. Boumeester », F. Picabia, Bachelard & autres, Art de Demain, Instance, 1951
- « La roue des corps » P. Mayer, ill. C. Boumeester, coll. Instance, PLF, 1955
- « C. Boumeester, peintures », G. Bachelard, cat., Gal. Kerchache, Paris, 1962
- « Christine Boumeester », Henri Goetz, Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1968
- « C. B., 1904-1971 », plaquette d'expo., Chateau-Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1972
- « Christine Boumeester », H. Goetz, cat., Ed. Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1973
- « C. Boumeester, 1904-1971 », cat. d'expo., Gal. des Saarland-Museums Saarbrücken 1979
- « C. Boumeester, clandestine de l'art et ...», cat., Musée Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, 1993
- « Christine Boumeester, Oeuvres sur papier », Ed. Musée PAB, Alès, 1994
To read from the artist :
- « La femme facile », illust. de C. Boumeester, H. Goetz, Ed. Jeanne Bucher, 1942
- « Les cahiers de Christine Boumeester », Ed. Coprah, Paris, 1977, (rééd.) 1988
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Stamp by Christine Boumeester
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 stampsHandwritten card, drawing and photograph
Private collection / These documents are not for sale.
A tribute to Christine Boumeester
Christine Boumeester s'éteint à Paris le 10 janvier 1971. Elle repose, au côté de son mari, Henri Goetz, au cimetière Montparnasse (12ème division). Celui-ci avait souhaité faire représenter une oeuvre caractéristique de sa femme sur sa tombe, tombe qui deviendra en 1989 la dernière demeure du couple. En hommage, nous déposons une fleur pleine de soleil, simple et discrète.
"Dans la peinture de Christine Boumeester beaucoup de secrets sortent de leur cachette pour être éclairés par son soleil. Ce qui m'attire, c'est le spectacle du rêve qui entoure ses toiles ; en quelque sorte elle est la femme spirituelle de la grande aventure de l'art pictural." - Francis Picabia
"Je voudrais une peinture avec les portes et les fenêtres ouvertes." - Christine Boumeester
"Son oeuvre présente une unité dans l'inspiration, une persévérance dans l'approfondissement, dont il y a peu d'exemple. Je ne mets pas Christine Boumeester à une moindre altitude." - Vercors
"L'on imagine Christine Boumeester souriant doucement, ironiquement peut-être, quand les masses colorées sous ses yeux amusés croient pouvoir mettre en paix, dans la lumière du jour, les luttes violentes du monde de la nuit." - Bachelard
"Boumeester . . . maintenant, ce dont je veux me souvenir d'elle échappe aux mots ; mais je le trouve sans peine au plus obscure, au plus muet du beau jardin abandonné." - Pierre Soulages
"C'est dans son monde féerique à la fois spontané et réfléchi, ultra- sensible mais solidement charpenté, intime mais partagé, que nos pensées les plus ailées peuvent y prendre leur essor en toute liberté." - Henri Goetz
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+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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