Emilie Charmy
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Émilie Charmy, Self-Portrait with an Album, c. 1907–1912, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
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Émilie Espérance Barret April 2, 1878 Saint-Etienne, France |
| Died | June 7, 1974 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Jacques Martin |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, School of Paris |
| Spouse(s) | George Bouche |
| Awards | Chevalier of the Legion of Honor |
Émilie Charmy (pronounced "shar-mee") (April 2, 1878 – 1974) was an artist in France's early avant-garde. She worked closely with Fauve artists like Henri Matisse, and was active in exhibiting her artworks in Paris, particularly with Berthe Weill.
She had become an artist against the norms for French women in her day and became a well-regarded artist. She made still life, landscape, figure pictures and, very rare for a woman at the time, a number of nude paintings of women. Charmy's initial works were Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. As her career evolved she was influenced by Fauvism and the School of Paris movements. She was a recipient of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
Émilie Espérance Barret was born on April 2, 1878 in Saint-Etienne, France.
She grew up in bourgeoisie family; her grandfather was Bishop of Toulouse and her father owned an iron foundry. She had two older brothers, one who died of appendicitis. Orphaned when she was a 14, she and her older brother Jean Barret then lived with relatives in Lyon. Émilie had a talent for both art and music as a child.
Émilie received a bourgeois educational training at a Catholic private school, and qualified to become a teacher, which if a woman were to have a career was limited to education.
When living at Lyon, she refused jobs in teaching in the late 1890s, she went to study and work in the studio of Jacques Martin. This was a critical moment in the further development of her career. Martin was involved with a number of other Lyon artists who became influential in Émilie's artistic development, including Louis Carrand and François Vernay who had a local reputation for a unique approach to flower painting.
During this time she assumed the name Émilie Charmy as her pseudonym.
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