Fernande Cormier
{{Short description|French woman painter}}
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Fernande Victoire Cormier,{{Cite web |title=Résultats des concours : feuilles de valeurs des élèves en peinture et en sculpture pour l'ensemble de leur scolarité. Début XX s. 1 e |url=https://francearchives.fr/fr/facomponent/d03ce445faa7613743bb8bf3e0b0337f943a6d4e |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=FranceArchives |language=fr}} born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon and died on 15 August 1964 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a French painter.
Biography
Born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon, Fernande Cormier studied under Ferdinand Humbert and {{ill|Émile Renard|fr}}.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtqiAAAAMAAJ&q=%2522Fernande+Cormier%2522 |title=Les Arts français: arts, métiers, industrie |date=1919 |language=fr}}
She exhibited from 1913 onwards at the Salon des artistes français in Paris (of which she was a member), winning a silver medal and a travel grant in 1920, at the Salon d'automne from 1919 to 1926 and at the Salon des Tuileries in 1927.
She was second grand prix de Rome in 1919.{{Cite web |last=Agence photographique |first=Agence Rol |date=1919 |title=Mlle Fernande Cormier, second grand prix de Rome de peinture en 1919 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53030642z |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=Gallica |language=FR}} She also participated in the exhibitions of the Society of Modern Women Artists in 1935-1936 and 1938. She traveled to Fez{{Cite web |title=Mlle CORMIER (Fernande)Peintre, (1920-1921) |publisher=Archives nationales |url=https://francearchives.fr/fr/facomponent/4ac0387f1a93287bad25c50c4feb91e8d1d849df |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=FranceArchives |language=fr}} and exhibited her Moroccan paintings in 1926.
Linked to Provence her native region, she made sets for the foyer of the Toulon Opera: in her painting of the Foyer Campra at the Opera, she depicts Massenet's Poème pastoral with a view of the Siou-Blanc plateau, a mountainous massif in the south-western part of the Var department. The subject, painted around 1922, has a symbolist influence.{{Cite web |title=Foyer Campra - Opéra de Toulon |url=https://www.operadetoulon.fr/fr/foyer-campra.htm |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=www.operadetoulon.fr}}
She also made sets for the town hall of Vincennes around 1932–1935.{{Cite web |title=Hôtel de ville de Vincennes |publisher=Monumentum |url=https://monumentum.fr/hotel-ville-vincennes-pa94000011.html |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=monumentum.fr}}{{Cite web |title=Vassiliev Foundation: Individual: Fernande CORMIER (French, Toulon 1888– 1964 Sanary) [Fernande CORMIER ] |url=https://ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/entities/61 |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=ns3103723.ip-145-239-9.eu}}
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|text=There is truth and accent in Miss Fernande Cormier's portraits.|author=Alfred Louis Edmond Vallette{{Cite book |last=Vallette |first=Alfred Louis Edmond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svMaAAAAYAAJ&q=%2522Fernande+Cormier%2522+-wikipedia |title=Mercure de France |date=1929 |pages=220 |language=fr}}}}
List of works
- Le collier de jasmin, oil on canvas, 64 x 55 cm.{{Cite web |title=Le collier de jasmin |publisher= Centre national des arts plastiques |url=https://www.cnap.fr/collection-en-ligne#/artwork/140000000046681 |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=www.cnap.fr}}
- Le sculpteur, oil on canvas, 135 x 105 cm.{{Cite web |title=Le sculpteur |publisher= Centre national des arts plastiques|url=https://www.cnap.fr/collection-en-ligne#/artwork/140000000057087 |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=www.cnap.fr}}
- Les pins, 72 x 85 cm.{{Cite web |title=Les pins | publisher= Centre national des arts plastiques |url=https://www.cnap.fr/collection-en-ligne#/artwork/140000000053037 |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=www.cnap.fr}}
- Femme marocaine dans son intérieur
- Bateaux dans la baie, oil on canvas, 43 x 53 cm.
- Le chat qui dort, oil on canvas, 61 × 50 cm, Gray (Haute-Saône), {{ill|Musée Baron-Martin|fr}}.
- Café en Sidi Bou Saïd, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.{{Cite web |title=Café en Sidi Bou Saïd |url=http://www.artnet.fr/artistes/fernande-cormier/caf%25C3%25A9-en-sidi-bou-sa%25C3%25AFd-FEnZyHYO-Lpjc9hGOGA_qw2 |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=www.artnet.fr}}
- Portrait de jeune homme à son bureau, oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm.
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Category:20th-century French women
Category:Painters from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Category:20th-century French painters
Category:20th-century French women painters
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