GARACHE, CLAUDE (French, b. 1929) "Petite Daquine." Original aquatint and etching. Edition: 100 signed and numbered proofs. Signed, L.R., and numbered "59/100," L.L. 6" x 4" (sight); 21" x 17" (framed). Price Category: A

Claude Garache, who lives and works in Paris, is one of the most gifted of contemporary artists. He works in a variety of media, including oil, lithography, and acquatint. His images, which may be called both figurative and abstract, have a meditative, haunting quality. Garache is an accomplished lithographer, a master of tonality whose sense of color and texture produces compelling studies of the human figure, his principal subject. Garache has been called by one critic "the first post-abstract master of the nude," a genre which has special meaning for him. "My women are genderless," he once explained in an interview with Jacob Stockinger. "They are human beings, they represent all people." Garache's works have been included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale's five-year surveys of the most important work in prints, and the European Print Bienniales. His one-person shows have been held at museums and galleries in the U.S., Belgium, France, England, Germany, and Spain. Provenance: Spaightwood Galleries, Upton, MA. References: Richard Stamelman, "The Incarnation of Red," Claude Garache (Centre d'Art Contemporain: Istres, 1993). Jacob Starobinski, Garache (Flammarion: Paris, 1988).

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