Biography notes
Richarme was born on January 24, 1904, in Canton, China, and from her very earliest childhood was introduced to drawing and painting by her mother, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Geneva. Later, Colette took evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Lyons and attended a school where she learnt […]
Chronology
This chronology is taken from the catalogue Colette Richarme: an artist, a life, an oeuvre (Colette Richarme : une artiste, une vie, une oeuvre) compiled by J.L. Bourges, a museum curator in Albertville. It is mostly composed of notes from a diary Richarme started keeping in 1944: there are varied notations, which, when taken as […]