Opening April 18, 2019
Ptotography: A. Jones
Vernissage
Casimir reymond in Panex
CR-107 Coffee Scene
First inspiration
First inspiration
Gifted in drawing since childhood, Casimir Reymond is first and foremost a young painter with promising talent whose pictorial audacity sublimates the authenticity of his native rural world, beyond the precepts of his masters, towards the incessant search for true plastic expression.
CR-73 The Harvest at Vaulion
CR-63 The Bellefontaine Gardener
CR-68 The Village of Vaulion
The flight
The flight
From the shoulders of giants such as Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Cézanne, Cuno Amiet, Hermanjat, Giovanni Giacometti and his master Eugène Gilliard, he set out resolutely towards a more personal creativity, innovative in colour and composition, driven by an imperative vision of the gestures and volumes that would lead him to sculpture.
CR-145 The Man in the Blue Pants
CR-144 Bearded Man's Head Smoking Pipe
CR-85 Field Lunch Break
CR-20 Peaches, Grapes and Prunes
CR-69 Begnins: Gardener's Lane
CR-48 L.-A. Reymond and his daughter Valentine
CR-47 L.-A. Reymond in shoemaker's apron
Convergence of the design
Convergence of the design
Casimir Reymond draws all the time, on everything he has at hand, with a genuine frenzy of research.
He develops multiple graphic writings whose progressive fragmentation becomes similar to that of his sculptor's chisel strokes or to that of his clay balls shaped with his thumb.
CR-11 Nude leaning on his left arm
CR-17 Winegrower at break
CR-08 Cartoon Self-Portrait
CR-76 Teenage Valentine
CR-01 Three Sketches for Sculptures
CR-56 Study for Sculptures
CR_SC-135 Study for the Craft Industry
CR-74 Valentine, sister of the artist
CR_SC-112 Self-Portrait of Jean Clerc
CR-59 Stacking Sketch 1
CR-58 Stacking Sketch 2
CR-12 On the Way to the Vine
CR-33 Destructured Torque
CR-26 Football Players
Emergence of the sculptor
Emergence of the sculptor
On the advice of Félix Vallotton, Casimir Reymond stays in Paris in the midst of the crisis of the twenties: his painting does not sell.
Displeased by the industrial transformation of his primary inspiration - rurality - he concentrated on the human figure through modelling and sculpture, initially classical in style.
CR_SC-126 Sitting girl
CR_SC-132 Reclining Nude
CR_SC-124 Seated Bather
Official recognition
Official recognition
These first sculptures, financed in part by the Lausanne gallery owner Paul Vallotton, triggered official commissions from the City of Lausanne: in particular the Caryatides of the Federal Court, then the Crafts and Agriculture of the Palais de Beaulieu, and the Grape Harvest in the Denantou Park, for which he carried out preparatory modelling.
CR_SC-127 Studies for Agriculture
CR_SC-131 Harvest Study
Art teacher
CR_SC-125 Woman with Veil
CR_SC-134 Standing Nude
CR_SC-123 Squatting Woman
CR_SC-136 Stretchy Woman
CR_SC-120 Picking Couples
The tree: structural theme
CR-65 Orchard in bloom against a backdrop of snowy peaks
CR-77-78 Trees on the Plain
CR-93 Tree and Foliage Survey
CR-42 Country Road
CR-37 Forest Edge Road
Whatever the technique
CR-69 Begnins: Orchard in bloom
Cross-hatched sculptures ?
Hatching" sculptures?
"This research has always corresponded to a precise need: that of provoking a more rapid awareness of a totality in which this organization of planes would be subordinated to an expressive state of matter, as if from it alone, from its center, from a dense form still in formation, a real presence would emerge."
Casimir Reymond
Interviews with Philippe Jaccottet, 1968
CR_SC-125 Woman with Veil
Catalogue
To find out more:
The exhibition catalogue is on sale at the museum along with all the works on display and others, as well as the following items:
- A Plural Work by Édith Carey
- Le laboratoire intime du dessin by Françoise Jaunin
- Small format sculpture by Manon Saudan
- Influences and inspirations by Philippe Clerc
and 8 Focus of works by Christophe Flubacher
