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Drawing, painting, collecting: all activities Raymond Humbert found out at a young age that he could not do without.
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So he left his native Lorraine and moved to Paris. He enrolled first at the \u00e9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs and later at the \u00e9cole des Beaux Arts. In 1958, he was awarded the first Grand Prix de Rome, but the true Raymond Humbert is to be found in his later works. He eventually went to live with all his family in Laduz, in the Yonne region, in 1969 and made regular trips to the rocky coast of Porspoder in Brittany, where nature became his favourite theme. He continued to paint in virtual obscurity in this hidden corner of France until 1990.
\nPainting in his garden in Laduz or on the windblown Porspoder shore was an essential release for him. Raymond Humbert gradually gave up the \u201cintimacy\u201d of his early studio work, where he used a subtle palette reminiscent of Vuillar, Bonnard, and Braque, to get close to nature, not with the aim of depicting it but to re-experience it in all seasonal aspects, combining vibrant lines with brilliant colours.
\nRaymond Humbert was also fascinated by objects. He need them around him and he would try to find out where the latest addition to his collection came from and gather all the information he could about it. In this way in the end he also developed a strong interest in the history of men. The tireless collector was relentless in creating his very own Mus\u00e9e des Arts Populaires in Laduz.
\nAs a collector, he loved to accumulate objects and as a painter he enjoyed depicting them, perhaps responding to the urge to say everything while there was still time, to cover and fill large canvases in almost medium-inspired trance\u2014whether it was Laduz in its organic vitality, its inspiring vigour, or Porspoder, a capricious marine environment pared down through a play of black and white to a rigorous stylization.
\nIn his very last works, he turned to painting obsessively repetitive still lifes. A search for the unusual he captured in his glazed earthenware hare dishes\u2014recumbent figures or sarcophagi, all explorations of form and content\u2014culminating in these vanitas<\/em>, not to say ossuaries\u2014works fit for meditation.<\/p>\n

Philippe Chabert <\/strong>is a head heritage curator. As the Director of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art moderne in Troyes, he mounted two exhibitions of work by Raymond Humbert (in 1995 and 2000) and has written extensively on him.
\nJean-Marie Lh\u00f4te<\/strong> is a former Director of the Maison de la culture, in Amiens. He is a project manager with Fran\u00e7ois Mathey and head curator at the Mus\u00e9e des arts decoratifs, in Pairs.
\nJacqueline Humbert<\/strong> was the artist\u2019s life partner and collaborator in his work, as well as a close associate in all aspects of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drawing, painting, collecting: all activities Raymond Humbert found out at a young age that he could not do without. So he left his native Lorraine and moved to Paris. He enrolled first at the \u00e9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs and later at the \u00e9cole des Beaux Arts. In 1958, he was awarded the first Grand Prix…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4779,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4802","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contemporary-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}