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Marguerite Bermond known as "Marg" is a figurative painter born on April 23, 1911 in Arles,died in Paris in October 1991.

Biography

To evoke Marguerite Bermond, Pierre Mazars goes back to the artist's youth: “She lived all her childhood near the arenas of Nîmes and this distant, this deep impregnation served her art. She did not have to protect herself from the anecdotal aspects, superficial details which monopolize the attention of neophytes. The bullfighters, she has always known them; she knows that a light costume is not satin tights, but that it weighs very heavy "1. Marguerite Bermond studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes before being a pupil of Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, then joining the. Paying homage to Marg's roots in turn, Mac Avoy wrote to her: “You did not acquire your profession in the workshops of Paris, but in Nîmes, little girl, unwittingly, without knowing it, by playing on this land. solid and dry growing the austere cypress, tomato and garlic; while the monuments of your august city, and those of Arles, decided your beautiful face and designated you for what is noble ” 2.

She worked in 1945 and 1946 in the illustration of popular literature (see section Illustrated books below).

Gérald Schurr 3 and Jean-Pierre Delarge 4 agree in recognizing in Marguerite Bermond an artist representative of this “ miserable ” painting which, in the 1950s, constituting the continuation of Francis Gruber in the pessimistic context of the post-war period, "Bears the mark of gravity". Claude Robert confirms that in Montmartre “his empty and deserted studio lit by a cold blue sky only welcomes the solitude of the model next to a useless stove ... His paintings harshly reflect the anguish of an era " 5.

His essentially studio painting does not, however, exclude a few resorts that the dates affixed to certain works allow us to put back in chronology: Provence in 1954, Holland( Amsterdam ) in 1955, Normandy ( Étretat ) and Andalusia 1963 6.

It is from 1970 that his palette is illuminated, under the influence, it is said on the one hand, of his more in-depth work in watercolor, but also, it is said elsewhere, because this " daughter of Arles ”, attracted to the south by temperament, is exteriorized in numerous trips which make her now favor landscape painting: Marguerite Bermond visits and paints Provence (Arles, Avignon, Eygalières , Remoulins , Rochefort- du-Gard , Noves ), the Côte d'Azur ( Sanary-sur-Mer , Nice ,Saint-Tropez ), but also Italy (Rome , Venice , Propriano , Verona ), Greece ( Athens , Hydra ), Turkey ( Pergé ), Spain ( Cadaques , Toledo , Ronda ), Tunisia and Morocco . She even makes a long boat trip on the Atlantic Ocean : off the Canary Islands she paints the Pic du Teide, in Abidjan the tugs in the port, in Doualathe bustling markets on the banks of the Wouri River.

Marguerite Bermond died suddenly in October 1991, a few days before the sale of her workshop at the Hôtel Drouot, an event she was working on. The Taylor Foundation paid tribute to him by creating a “Marguerite-Bermond Prize”

Awards

Bullfighting Prize, Nîmes, 1960. Maurice Pierre Prize ( Académie Julian ), 1962. Prize for watercolors at the Salon des Femmes Peintres, 1965. Workshop manager at the International Academy of Nice, 1964, 1965. International Grand Prize for painting awarded in Geneva by the Association of Artists and Writers of France and Overseas, 1970. Taylor Prize, 1970. Silver medal at the Salon of French artists, 1978. Harry Thompson Prize, 1983.