Marcelle Rivier was born in Lyon in 1906. After its childhood passed to Argentina, it enters to Paris to the school of painting of André Lhote. It settles about 1940 with Mirmande and passes its life to be painted according to its desire and its need to paint: “I paint because of a volcano in the belly”. It will die out in this same village in 1986.

History

    • 1906 : Birth in Lyon then early childhood in Paris.

    • 1912: Departure for Argentina, schooling in convents and holidays in the family property close to the Andes cordillera.
    • 1924: Saleswoman in Buenos Aires in a gallery of Article
    • 1928: Arrival in Paris with the desire for painting. Is registered during André Lhote who, the summer, takes along his pupils to Mirmande. Also attend the academies Julian and Leger.
    • 1930 to 1934: By need, becomes model six months of the year and withdraws themselves the other months to paint with Mirmande. Meet Henri Focillon, Supervielle, Derain. Take part in the living rooms of autumn and the living room of Tileries.
    • 1935: Dancer of variety the night, painter the day, spends six months to New York and six months to London.
    • 1936: Marriage in London with Fernand Auberjonois and departure for New York.
    • 1938: Only return to Paris to paint. Meet Fédor Loevenstein, other painters of the " Equipe" , as well as writers (Miller, Henri Michaux).
    • as from 1940: settle with Mirmande with other painters (Fédor Loevenstein, Alexandre Garbell, Bolin…).
    • 1941: Exposure to the museum of Valence. Meet Maurice Caillet.
    • During the war: Marcelle works like liaison officer of a resistance network. Thanks to it, much escape Gestapo. Since 1945, it receives the Military Cross. But about all that she speaks little.
    • 1946 to 1947: Be integrated into the life of Mirmande where she writes several parts. Meet Lacasse.
    • 1948: Exposure to " Gentilhommière" , Raspail boulevard in Paris.
    • 1951: Travel to Africa. 5000 km in Guinea. Many sketches which, later, will become drawings or fabrics.
    • 1951 to 1952: Work on the fabrics of Africa.
    • 1953 to 1956: Exposure to Mirmande, the Durand Gallery in Valence, the museum of Valence, Tournon (exposure organized by François Dodat), to Privas… Purchase of a fabric by the museum of Valence (destroyed in 1969 in the fire of the museum.)
    • 1956: Price of the general advice of Drome. Painted in workshop of died natures, the indoor scenes with characters of Mirmande. Give up the reason.
    • 1960: Exposure to Toulouse (purchase of a fabric by the museum) and to the Dudoret gallery in Valence, where the painter Auclair exposed ceramics.
    • 1967: Expose to the cultural spring of Geneva.
    • 1969: Exposure to Charavines Baths and the gallery " The hand of fer".
    • 1974: Travel to Holland.
    • 1976: Exposure of group to the gallery Sapet de Valence.
    • 1979-1980: Exposure to the gallery Sapet de Valence.
    • 1981: Exposure to the gallery Sapet de Valence. Guest of honor to the living room of Borough of Toll.
    • 1986: Exposure to the Holy-Foy church of Mirmande.
  • Marcelle Rivier dies on December 23rd, 1986. She rests with Mirmande.
    • 1987 : Exposure Centers Bonlieu in Annecy.
    • 1989-1990: Exposure to the Guichard gallery in Aoste.
    • 1991: Exposure to the Guichard gallery at the Saint-Andrew Coast.
    • 2004: Permanent collection with the museum of Valence.

Quotations

" I paint to make me sublime surprised. I request from a fabric of me épater." To be astonished oneself, certainly. But also to astonish the others. At this place of the conversation, Marcelle makes it clear that, beyond the jubilante provocation, there is, more secretly, the need for regulating accounts.

" I had revenges to take. Revenge on the adults who humiliate childhood too easily. Revenge on the life which always does not appease the desires. Painting enabled me, inter alia things, to prove that of which I was able by me only and to carry out what I could not or did not dare vivre." She points out then the sentence of François Dodat: " Perhaps think of marvellous violences that the man connects at the bottom of his pensée". Violences which the child and the woman connected but that the artist, " the peintresse" , she says while playing with the meridian accent, releases definitively. " With the convent, I heard in the night a train who passed while whistling. This train said to me that one day I mourrais." " We were in the study hall. The door was open on the court. It was to be one of these superb autumns, as there is in America. The light which ran on the trees made me understand that another thing existait." ALL " I want to do everything. Matisse gives of a sheet a linear and elegant layout. Me, I want the tactile one, the odor, all to the veins. I want carnal things, all in all all that is defended. This is why I need to approach me. The landscapes sometimes are too far from moi."

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