Fernande Cormier
French woman painter
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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.[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.
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.
- 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.
