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.
References
- ↑ "Résultats des concours : feuilles de valeurs des élèves en peinture et en sculpture pour l'ensemble de leur scolarité. Début XX s. 1 e". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-06.
- 1 2 Les Arts français: arts, métiers, industrie (in French). 1919.
- ↑ Agence photographique, Agence Rol (1919). "Mlle Fernande Cormier, second grand prix de Rome de peinture en 1919". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Mlle CORMIER (Fernande)Peintre, (1920-1921)". FranceArchives (in French). Archives nationales. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Foyer Campra - Opéra de Toulon". www.operadetoulon.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Hôtel de ville de Vincennes". monumentum.fr. Monumentum. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Vassiliev Foundation: Individual: Fernande CORMIER (French, Toulon 1888– 1964 Sanary) [Fernande CORMIER ]". ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ Vallette, Alfred Louis Edmond (1929). Mercure de France (in French). p. 220.
- ↑ "Le collier de jasmin". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Le sculpteur". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Les pins". www.cnap.fr. Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ↑ "Café en Sidi Bou Saïd". www.artnet.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-26.