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Raymond Guerrier
"I have the taste natural to paint in depth and without system."
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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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Il fit partie de ces artistes qui renouvelèrent la peinture figurative en abordant la réalité. Le peintre Raymond Guerrier est mort le 5 avril 2002 à Eygalières où il vivait depuis 1955 ; il avait 82 ans. Entouré des superbes paysages des Alpilles, il repose dans le petit cimetière de ce tranquille village de Provence situé à quelques kilomètres de Saint Rémy de Provence. En son hommage, nous déposons une branche d’olivier auprès de lui.
"Raymond Guerrier a renoncé aux facilités de la peinture sans verser dans la décoration ni la gratuité ; il a abandonné les apparences sans perdre le contact avec la réalité." - Michel del Castillo
"Je peins, je ne fais pas de littérature!" - Raymond Guerrier
"Ce qui compte beaucoup chez Guerrier, c’est l’accent de vérité, le témoignage humain si personnel que reflète son oeuvre." - Jean Rollin
"Guerrier a pris racine dans le roc." - Pierre Emmanuel
"Il y a, entre les chauds et les froids, tout un jeu de correspondances qui sont le reflet de la pensée et des sentiments du peintre. C’est pourquoi son art nous émeut dès l’abord, comme une confidence." - Jean Rollin
"Rigueur dans le regard qui dépouille l'anecdote de tout ce qui n'est pas essentiel, qui finit par ôter au sujet tout ce qui distrait et qui flatte les yeux pour n'en plus considérer que les implications profondes." - Michel del Castillo
Notes of biography
Raymond Guerrier was born in Paris in 1920. He was of Breton extraction. He was a real solitary. And with all the museums he frequented, he was an autodidact. He spent almost his whole life in Provence - he settled down in Eygalières in 1955, where his need of independence, calm and freedom lead him.
His first personal exhibition was organized in the Gallery Stiébel (Paris); others came after in France and abroad (London, New York, Geneva, Caracas, etc…). From his first exhibition, the artist asserted himself like one of the major painters of his generation. He obtained the price of the young painting in 1953, in front of already famous painters like Bernard Buffet, Lorjou, Rebeyrolle.
Guerrier travelled: Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Jordan, Israel, and these sunny voyages represented a lot in his work; the artist changed for lighter colors his palette. Guerrier always affirmed his “natural inclination to paint in-depth and without system”. At first, during his learning time, his painting took place in the figurative world. His painting with a dominating grey, created a poetic and nostalgic climate. He painted landscapes, sometimes animated characters, and still life canvases. On his way, feelings and discoveries lead him gradually towards abstraction.
It was in Provence (Eygalières) that the man took root really. The South gave him his subjects. It was where the style of his pictorial language evolved little by little beginning with Braque’s influence; the organization and the appearance of the forms changed, the artist moved towards the abstraction. The external world and the objects were erased to leave the place to purely plastic fittings of colors, forms and rhythms.
The artist gave on the world a questioning look. He wanted to give his testimony, a true testimony. Michel del Castillo said about the artist: “Guerrier withdrew from the subject all that distracts and flatters the eyes, and he considers only the major implications”.
Many museums have works of the artist who died in Eygalières in 2002 (M.N.A.M of Paris, Musée Réatu in Arles, Musée Cantini of Marseilles, Musée of Tokyo, etc…).
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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.
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To read about the artist :
- « Le gravité de Guerrier », In « Galerie des Arts », Paris, 1970
- « R. Guerrier, vingt ans de peinture », cat., Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1972
- « Raymond Guerrier », Ed. Centre Culturel Jean Houdremont, 1979
- Raymond Guerrier », cat., Ed. Galerie Antoine Ravez, Fontenay-le-Comte, 1982
- « La réaction figurative 1948-1958 », C. Counord-Alan, Ed. Galerie 1950-Alan, 1990
- « Raymond Guerrier », cat., Ed. du Centre culturel de Fécamp, 1990
- « Raymond Guerrier », Cat., Musée Paul-Valéry, Sète, 1996
- « Raymond Guerrier », L. Harambourg, in La Gazette de Drouot, 28 juin 2002
- « Les insoumis de l'art moderne ..., 1948-1958 », P. Basset, Ed. Un certain regard, 2009
- « Six artistes sur quatre générations », cat., Galerie 22, Coustellet, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « La bête du Vaccarès », J. d'Arbaud, ill. , Ed. Bibliophiles de France, 1958
- « Raymond Guerrier », cat., Galerie Sabine Vazieux, Paris, 2007
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Stamp by Raymond Guerrier
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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
Poem and dedicated invitation card
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Raymond Guerrier
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Il fit partie de ces artistes qui renouvelèrent la peinture figurative en abordant la réalité. Le peintre Raymond Guerrier est mort le 5 avril 2002 à Eygalières où il vivait depuis 1955 ; il avait 82 ans. Entouré des superbes paysages des Alpilles, il repose dans le petit cimetière de ce tranquille village de Provence situé à quelques kilomètres de Saint Rémy de Provence. En son hommage, nous déposons une branche d’olivier auprès de lui.
"Raymond Guerrier a renoncé aux facilités de la peinture sans verser dans la décoration ni la gratuité ; il a abandonné les apparences sans perdre le contact avec la réalité." - Michel del Castillo
"Je peins, je ne fais pas de littérature!" - Raymond Guerrier
"Ce qui compte beaucoup chez Guerrier, c’est l’accent de vérité, le témoignage humain si personnel que reflète son oeuvre." - Jean Rollin
"Guerrier a pris racine dans le roc." - Pierre Emmanuel
"Il y a, entre les chauds et les froids, tout un jeu de correspondances qui sont le reflet de la pensée et des sentiments du peintre. C’est pourquoi son art nous émeut dès l’abord, comme une confidence." - Jean Rollin
"Rigueur dans le regard qui dépouille l'anecdote de tout ce qui n'est pas essentiel, qui finit par ôter au sujet tout ce qui distrait et qui flatte les yeux pour n'en plus considérer que les implications profondes." - Michel del Castillo
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