Marcel Gromaire
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Marcel Gromaire (b. 1892, Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France; d. 1971, in Paris) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often connotated with Social Realism.
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[edit] Early Life
Marcel Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris studied classically at Douai, then continued his studies in Paris, receiving his Baccalauréat in Law in 1909, a judiciary career path he quickly abandoned. He frequents studios in Montparnasse. In 1912, he performs his military service in Lille as the war begins and spends the next six years in the army and is hurt in 1916 at la Somme.[1]
[edit] Creative Life
Gromaire returns to Paris, working in a Paris studio, his subject matter of rich dark ochers and browns in his paintings in an ordered wealth of textural sensation when transferring the reality of his studio and its light and contents, onto his canvases. Gromaire uses his studio as a standard, a filter; it is more than just a place to paint.[2]
A meeting with the collector, Dr. Girardin, establishes his career as an artist as he purchases the entirety of the work of Gromaire. When Dr. Girardin died in 1953, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris received 78 oil paintings as well as a collection of watercolors.[3]
In 1933, A retrospective at the Kunsthalle de Baie establishes the importance of his body of works. In 1937, his work is exhibited by orders of the State at the Paris Exposition Internationale.
[edit] Mid-Career
In 1939-1944, he resides at Aubusson and participates in the renewal of the tapestry movement with Jean Lurcat. He is named a professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1950 until 1962.
Gromaire relocated to the United States and became a member of the Jury for the Carnegie Prize, which went to Jacques Villon that year. The prize is awarded to him in 1952.
In 1954, he is made commander of the Légion d'honneur and two years later, obtains the National Guggenheim prize and in 1958, The Grand Prix National des Arts.
