About

Sculptor of metamorphoses and the first female artist to have an exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne during her lifetime, Germaine Richier had a dazzling career. Born in 1902 in Grans, in the Bouches-du-Rhone region, the artist found in the flora and fauna of her native Provence the naturalist inspiration that runs through a corpus nonetheless centered on the human figure. Her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier (1920–1926) and the private studio of Antoine Bourdelle (1926–1929), himself a former student of Auguste Rodin, informed her practice of working from a live …