Georges Valmier was born in Angouleme, France in 1885 and died too young in 1937 in Paris. He started as an Impressionist but at 25 he discovered Cubism and never looked back. Later, he became an early adoptee of Abstract painting. Remarkably, he was also a Classical singer, famous then for his interpretations of the Avant-Garde of the time: Ravel, Satie and Debussy. He designed theater sets and costumes. He drew the covers of the Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne, where he showed a lot of his works.

Valmier was a member of Abstraction-Création, an association of artists formed in Paris in 1931 to counteract the influence of the dictatorial André Breton at the head of the Surrealists.

“The Impressionists cleansed the eyes, but we must also cleanse the heart and the mind.” (Valmier in Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne), 1923.

“The invisible is the opposite of nothing; why should we not paint the invisible from nature?” Valmier in Abstraction création, 1933.

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