"Casimir REYMOND (1893, 1969) Switzerland- View of Cézanne's workshop- Aix-en-Provence- Saint-Sauveur Cathedral - Dated 1937"
View of Aix-en-Provence- Dated 1937
Inscriptions on the back: "Aix, view of the Cézanne workshop", "Mrs. Mazella".
Oil on panel signed and dated at the bottom right.
Dimensions: 49.5 x 73 cm, with frame: 72 x 95 cm.
Painter and sculptor, originally from Vaulion, in the Vaudois Jura, Casimir Reymond studied at the School of Fine Arts in Geneva.
We owe him a sculpture of Mary at the St Paul's Church in Vienna and many of his sculptures that adorn the city of Lausanne.
He stayed in Paris from 1929 to 1932 where he participated in several Parisian exhibitions
He received the Wilhelm Gimmi Prize in 1969 shortly before his death.
From 1932, he taught at the cantonal school of drawing and applied art in Lausanne, which he directed in 1933-1934 and from 1945 to 1955.
Museums: Paris Museum of Modern Art, Lausanne.
Bibliography:
Edith Carey dir., Casimir Reymond, 1893-1969. His life and his work, Infolio, Gollion, 2010
. Jordan et al., Casimir Reymond, sculptor, 1893-1969, 1974
see also Jean-Paul Berger, Belles-Lettres and the fine arts, in in Two centuries in red and green, Belles-Lettres de Lausanne, 1806-2006, p. 110-1