Draft:Christian Caillard

Christian Caillard
Born26 juillet 1899
Clichy (Seine)
Died18 septembre 1985 (à 86 ans)
9e arrondissement de Paris
MovementPoetic Reality
Websitehttps://christian-caillard.com/

Biographie

Hugues Christian Caillard is the son of Gabriel Caillard-Belle, a publicist, and Jeanne Huguette Olga Wagram Mendès (daughter of Catulle Mendès and Augusta Holmès). After studying at the Collège Rollin, he sat the entrance exam for the École Centrale. Mobilised in 1918, he served in the artillery, but upon returning to civilian life he decided to abandon the sciences in order to devote himself to painting. His uncle, Henri Barbusse, gave him his first paint box. In 1921, Caillard enrolled at the Académie Biloul, where he stayed for a few months and met Eugène Dabit, the future author of Hôtel du Nord, and the painter Georges-André Klein.. Also in 1921, Christian Caillard met Irène Champigny. From the following year, the pair successfully launched into the production and sale of decorative silk pieces made using the "batik" technique. This method of decorating and dyeing fabric using heated wax originates from Java. The technique had quickly won over the Parisian public: "Batik is no longer a trend, but a craze spreading like an epidemic. Everyone is batiking or wants to batik," wrote a columnist in the magazine Les Modes de la femme de France on 5 August 1923. In 1924, Champigny had secured a significant order from the Galeries Lafayette, meaning the two artists had been forced to transform their artisanal work into industrial production, Caillard later recalled. Champigny successfully exhibited their creations at the Grande Maison de Blanc on the Place de l'Opéra, and even arranged for part of its premises to be used as a gallery, where she subsequently exhibited paintings by Loutreuil, Dabit, Appia, and Caillard. Then in 1923, Caillard met the painter Maurice Loutreuil, who became for the young artist not only a master, but also a friend and guide.

In 1927, Caillard made his first trip to Morocco. Encouraged by this initial taste of foreign travel, he resolved to undertake a long journey around the world in order to accumulate sketches and impressions. In this way he successively visited Indochina, Bali, Tahiti, and Martinique. From his extended stay in Tahiti, he would leave behind a daughter who remained to live with her family there.

He remained faithful to the 9th arrondissement of Paris from 1935 until his death in 1985, living at 6 rue Clauzel, a stone's throw from the little shop where Père Tanguy sold paints... or exchanged them for canvases with the greatest artists (Van Gogh, Pissarro, Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, and many others). Christian Caillard had his painter's studio there for fifty years. It was there that he worked in Paris and where he brought back the canvases he had "harvested" around the world. Mobilised in 1939, he was taken prisoner in the Vosges in 1940. Released in June 1941, he resumed painting and, from 1945 onwards, began spending time in Brittany, whose wild and solitary moorlands he loved.

In 1948, he met Monette Pinat, with whom he would have two sons, Vincent and Laurent, who would live at 61 rue du Pré-Saint-Gervais in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. This house had been the studio of Loutreuil, who upon his death in 1925 left his paintings and his home to Caillard "to dispose of as he saw fit," as he specified in his brief will — a testament to his trust in Caillard's loyal friendship.

While dividing his time between Paris, Saint-Tropez, and Brittany, Caillard once again made extended stays in Morocco, Mexico, Greece, and Spain, where he acquired a house in 1956 in Jávea, near Alicante. In 1956, he met Chantal de Marans, whom he would marry in Paris (9th arrondissement) on 6 January 1962 (marginal note in birth certificate, A.D. Hauts-de-Seine, E NUM CLI 1899, act 599, view 101/168), and with whom he would have a daughter, Elisabeth. In Vevey, Switzerland, Caillard took part in 1957 in an exhibition of "painters of poetic reality." Following a major retrospective at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1963, he resumed his travels around the world. He spent a year in Madagascar in 1964. He returned to Morocco several times, in 1966, 1968, and 1970..

In November 1984, he made one last visit to Geneva, where the Galerie de la Corraterie — following on from the exhibitions it had devoted to him in 1978–1979 and 1981 — presented his most recent works.

After his death, the Galerie Jean-Pierre Joubert paid tribute to him in Paris as early as June 1986, while the city of Menton welcomed his work in April 1987 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of the Palais Carnolès, and following an exhibition at the Galerie Künsthaus Bülher in Stuttgart in 1995, the city of Paris devoted a major retrospective to him in 1997, honouring him as the "painter of the 9th arrondissement."

Awards & Honous

Solo Exhibitions

  • 1932 : Galerie du Portique, Paris
  • 1933, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1959 : Galerie Bernier, Paris
  • 1953 : Galerie Rivages, Alger — The Adams Gallery, Londres
  • 1956 : Galerie Colline, Oran
  • 1958 : Galerie Romanet, Paris
  • 1961 : Galerie André Weil, Paris
  • 1963, 1965 : Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
  • 1963 : Galerie Saluden, Brest: Ferme en Bretagne, isorel monté sur chassis, 54 x 65 cm, actuellement au musée des beaux-arts de Brest[1]
  • 1964 : Galerie Ausstellung, Stuttgart
  • 1965 : Maison d'Art Alsacienne, Mulhouse
  • 1966 : Galerie Motte, Genève — Galerie Anne de Francony, Nice
  • 1969 : Galerie de Paris, Paris
  • 1972 : Galerie André Paccitti, Paris — Galerie des Granges, Genève
  • 1976 : Galerie des Granges, Genève — Galerie André Weil, Paris
  • 1979, 1981, 1984 : Galerie de la Corraterie, Genève
  • 1980 : Galerie Ausstellung, Stuttgart
  • 1986 : Galerie Jean-Pierre Joubert, Paris
  • 1987 : Musée Carnoles, Menton
  • 1988 : Les Arts de l’Enclos, Honfleur
  • 1995 : Galerie Künsthaus Bülher, Stuttgart
  • 1997 : Mairie du 9e arrondissement de Paris, rétrospective
  • 1999 : Les Arts de l’Enclos, Honfleur
  • René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930, p. 227
  • Philippe Chabaneix, Christian Caillard, Paris, 1944.
  • Jean Alazard, Christian Caillard, Genève, 1948.
  • Gisèle d’Assailly, Avec les Peintres de la Réalité Poétique, paris 1949.
  • François Daulte, Les peintres de la Réalité Poétique, Catalogue de l’exposition. La Tour-de-Peilz, Vevey, Suisse, 1957.
  • Claude Roger-Marx, Caillard, in Medica, juin 1960, N°9.
  • Raymond Nacenta, L’Ecole de Paris, Neuchâtel, 1962
  • Maurice Genevoix, Christian Caillard, Neuchâtel 1965.
  • Raymond Charmet, Caillard, Voyages, Paris, 1978.
  • Lydia Harambourg, Une vision du bonheur, Les peintres de la réalité poétique, Catalogue de l’exposition. Musée Yves Brayer. Les-Baux-de-Provence, 2021.

See also

Category:20th-century French painters

  1. ^ Renaissance du Musée de Brest, acquisitions récentes : [exposition], Musée du Louvre, Aile de Flore, Département des Peintures, 25 octobre 1974-27 janvier 1975, Paris. 1974. p. 80.

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