Raoul Martinez (1876–1974) was a French artist.

Life

The French painter Raoul Martinez was born in 1876 from well-to-do parents who lived in

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, France. The family owned a hacienda near

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, where he lived from 1896 till about 1915. In Brussels, he started his career as a painter in 1907 and had his first exhibition at La Libre Esthétique in 1910. During the First World War and thereafter, he worked a couple of periods in the Netherlands and in Belgium; after the Second World War he settled in Paris.

Exhibitions

The Netherlands * ''La Libre Esthétique'' (Brussels), 1910, 1911 * ''De Branding'' (Rotterdam and Utrecht), 1918, (Rotterdam) 1919 * ''Vereniging Voor de Kunst'' (Utrecht), 1918, 1921, 1923, 1927, 1934 * Exhibitions at many other Dutch art associations and Dutch art galleries (in Amsterdam and The Hague) 1921 and thereafter * Solo exhibition in the Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), 1956 * Solo exhibition in museum De Wieger (Deurne), 1999 Belgium * Galerie San Salvador (Brugge), 1926 France * Galerie Imberti (Bordeaux), 1938 Switzerland * Galerie Max Rohr (Bern), 1951

Museum collections

The Netherlands * Centraal Museum, Utrecht * Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague * Museum De Wieger, Deurne * Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo France * Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

References

* ''Raoul Martinez'', by Rosella Huber-Spanier, Museum De Wieger, 1999, * "Raoul Martinez en zijn Don Quichot", article by Rosella Huber-Spanier in ''Jong Holland'', jaargang 16 nr.1, 2000, pp. 42–50

External links

Raoul Martinez webzite

References

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