Garache Galerie Maeght 1977 Lithographic print 76 x 54,5 cm. Editor: Maeght Editeur Impresor: Arte Paris A- (fine, tiny imperfections) Poster published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Galerie Maeght in Paris, from February 3 to March 11, 1977 Claude Garache is a French painter, engraver, and lithographer born on January 20, 1930, in Paris. In 1948, he produced his first personal works. That same year, he studied drawing and sculpture under Robert Coutin. He frequented the studios of Fernand Léger and André Lhote, as well as the monumental art studio at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. After numerous trips throughout Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Rome, southern Italy, Greece, Istanbul), the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran), and the United States, where he worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in California, he settled in Paris in 1959 and began working with models in his studio. He then made several visits to Alberto Giacometti. In 1962, Theodore Schempp became her dealer. Her first exhibitions at Aimé Maeght were much talked about, particularly by Chagall and Miró. From 1972 onwards, Raoul Ubac highlighted the singular coherence of her work, “animated by a strange power that works in successive impulses towards the slow and progressive reconstruction of a single body.” Dora Vallier described his nude paintings as “post-abstract” art. He has been producing etchings alongside his paintings since 1965. A friend of many writers, particularly André Frénaud and Jacques Dupin, Claude Garache has illustrated several poetry books by Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, and Edmond Jabès.