Beginning tonight, February 27, 2014, Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin will jointly present the first American exhibition in half a century century devoted to the work of seminal postwar French artist Germaine Richier (1902 - 1959).
On view in the landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue where both galleries reside, Germaine Richier will present more than forty important sculptures ranging from early torsos and figures, to startling hybrids of humans crossed with bats, toads, spiders, and vegetal organism, that brought the artist international recognition before her untimely death at the age of 57. The exhibition traces the evolution of a defiantly independent vision and the artistic trajectory of a woman whose life was imprinted indelibly by two World Wars; who began her career in the studio of Antoine Bourdelle; and who went on to break convention and leave a vivid mark on the history of Modern art. The exhibition complements Richier's sculptures with a selection of photographs by her contemporary Brassaï, who documented the artist's studio and captured the uncategorizable power of her work.Germaine Richier will remain on view through April 12th on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in the same neighborhood where the artist's first American solo exhibition was presented to broad critical acclaim in 1957 at the legendary Martha Jackson Gallery. The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of Richier's work currently on view at the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland, as well as Giacometti, Marini, Richier: The Tortured Figure at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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