Born in Apt in the Luberon region on June 17, 1917, Laure Placide was a former student of the Popular Academy of Visual Arts in Paris, where she was a member and president until 1955. This Parisian academy, run by an association of artists and educators, aimed to experiment with methods capable of leading an audience from all backgrounds to discover the values ​​of art. Laure Placide associated with, among others, the painters Jean Bazaine, Michel Carrade, Robert Lapoujade, Alfred Manessier, and Lucien Lautrec. With Lautrec, she collaborated in 1951/1952 on a mural decoration for the International Youth Center in Paris (commissioned by the French government). In 1956, she became a drawing teacher at the Saint-Exupéry High School in Saint-Dizier, where she experimented with the modern methods of art education she had learned in Paris. She participated in numerous group exhibitions in the post-war years and received an encouragement prize from the Fine Arts Department of the City of Paris in 1961. A proponent of non-figurative art and gestural drawing, Laure Placide was equally adept at oil painting, watercolor, and ink drawing. She drew her inspiration from the landscapes of her native Provence, to which she remained deeply attached, the Haute-Marne region, and those discovered during her travels (notably in Venice). Laure Placide passed away in 2014.
The works presented below were created using watercolor on paper.
- 150€ each -