À LA RECHERCHE DE SUZANNE HUMBERT – Laure Fissore

It all began in a flea market on a rainy day, when Michel Lagarde’s discerning eye spotted a set of forgotten works under a tarpaulin. They are paintings by Suzanne Humbert (1913-1952), recognizable by their vibrant simplicity and the sense of familiarity they evoke.

With her intimate style and bold colors, Suzanne Humbert was one of the pioneers of the early twentieth-century art scene. After studying law to satisfy her father, she enrolled at the Académie Julian, the Nabis school and one of the first to accept women, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, which had just opened a studio reserved for women. There, Suzanne Humbert rubbed shoulders with Georges d’Espagnat, Abbé Buffet and also Hélène Poirié (1914-2009), who was to become her great friend.

As fate would have it, they were brought together in this book: following the death of this illustrator, Michel Lagarde received a call from a friend who had just rescued a collection of Hélène Poirié’s works from the dumpster. Laure Fissore, a teacher at ESAP in Monaco and winner of the Libération prize for travel notebooks, was in turn moved by Suzanne Humbert’s style, which she discovered by following news of the Michel Lagarde gallery. This led to her desire to illustrate the book dedicated to Suzanne Humbert, a rediscovery and the blossoming of a talent.

This book tells the story of paintings and gouaches miraculously found by two collectors, and the story of two artist friends brought together by chance.

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