RAYMONDE HEUDEBERT 1894/1991

OIL ON CANVAS. CUBIZANT LANDSCAPE.100X73cm

Stripping in the undulating lines defining a landscape, refined simplification of the volumes: in Italy, in Provence or in Spain, in Mauritius or in Hong-Kong, Raymonde Heudebert has collected the very essence of nature which she transposes with the rigor of a cubist artist full of humor and strength, of very very fine sensitivity in an exceptional visual acuity" observes Gérald Schurr, who however underlines that Raymonde Heudebert more particularly "knew how to renew the eternal theme of Venice thanks to the sensitivity of a synthetic graphic design, with the fluidity of a palette that evokes as in a poetic dream, more than they describe them, the famous architectures of the Serenissima.

They said :

Raymonde Heudebert worked with André LHOTE. Like him, she was touched by CUBISM, but without anything systematic and rigid. His work, on the contrary, is all sensibility. The landscapes, well constructed, balanced, denote a confirmed craft and the colors, almost always tender, are of great refinement. - Francoise de Perthuis.
A voluntary art born of cubism combined with a fine feminine sensibility, landscapes of florence and naples with lines of force built in light, African drawings of a strict cadence. This pupil of Maurice Denis also leaves behind a series of portraits (Paul Morand, François Mauriac, Félix Vallotton, etc.) of rigorous stylization and full of humour. - Gerald Schurr

Museum presences: boulogne 1930s museum,
grenoble museum,
national assembly paris national center of plastic arts,
Quai Branly Museum,
Rouen museum of fine arts
Maurice Denis Museum

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