{"id":756659,"date":"2025-11-12T10:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/?p=756659"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:02:36","slug":"who-is-emma-reyes-the-colombian-artist-known-for-her-lush-canvases-recently-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/art-design\/art-en\/who-is-emma-reyes-the-colombian-artist-known-for-her-lush-canvases-recently-rediscovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Emma Reyes, the Colombian artist known for her lush canvases, recently rediscovered?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An extravagant body of work that long remained unknown<\/h2>\n\n

\u201cAfter a thousand things, I\u2019ve finally arrived in Paris<\/em>,\u201d wrote the young Emma Reyes<\/strong> in 1947. Born in 1919<\/strong>, the Columbian painter and writer, who died in 2003 at the age of 84, had come to France after obtaining a grant from the Fondation Roncoroni to study at the Acad\u00e9mie Andr\u00e9-Lhote<\/strong>. During the voyage, she met the man who, 15 years later, would become her husband, the medical doctor Jean Perromat. Born in Bogot\u00e1 to an unknown father, abandoned by her mother on a railway-station platform, and brought up in a Catholic convent<\/strong> from which she escaped on reaching her majority, the illiterate Reyes, who wasn\u2019t yet 30, was obsessed with one idea: \u201cI\u2019m going to make pictures, the sort people hang on walls<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Twenty years after her death, at a time when her name has been forgotten \u2013 or was never even familiar \u2013, she has come back, it seems, to France. It is thus with a certain astonishment that one has discovered her extravagant and hitherto unknown oeuvre<\/strong> through a series of recent exhibitions<\/strong>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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Galerie Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur is presenting a remarkable exhibition of her work in Paris<\/h3>\n\n

Between October 2023 and January 2024<\/strong>, Geneva\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO<\/strong>) showed several of her canvases from the 1980s and early 90s, while as of March 2025, Bordeaux\u2019s CAPC<\/strong> is showing a handful of paintings that constitute \u201ca hang within the hang.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n

This summer\u2019s exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art et d\u2019Arch\u00e9ologie du P\u00e9rigord<\/strong>, Emma Reyes, une artiste haute en couleur<\/em>, allowed the public to discover some of the 209 works she bequeathed to the museum, while one of her paintings featured in the main exhibition at last year\u2019s Venice Art Biennale<\/strong>. This autumn, the Galerie Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur<\/strong> has dedicated an extraordinary exhibition<\/strong> to Reyes in its three Parisian spaces, the first solo show of her work since her death.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

In other words, over the past couple of years various opportunities have arisen to see her output, a phenomenon that is in no way supernatural but is due to the passion of Reyes\u2019s great niece by marriage, St\u00e9phanie Cottin<\/strong>, who is president of the Emma Reyes Society<\/strong>, and to the commitment of two young French art dealers.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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Untitled<\/em> (1970). \u00a9 Courtesy of the estate and Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur, Paris. Photo: Alksei Kostromin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Emma Reyes: A childhood spent in a Colombian convent, dreaming of the outside world<\/h2>\n\n

After their mother abandoned them, Reyes and her sister Helena were placed, or rather locked away, in the Convent of Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora just outside Bogot\u00e1<\/strong>. During her adolescence, embroidery<\/strong> constituted her principal occupation. For Emma Reyes<\/strong>, life outside the convent was an entirely abstract concept, since she never left the building and only heard about the wider world from new girls entering the institution.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

\u201cI spent my childhood in a convent without ever leaving<\/em>,\u201d she told the journalist Gloria Valencia de Casta\u00f1o in 1976. \u201cI lived in a world of dreams and abstraction, because we referred to everything that happened outside the convent as \u2018the world,\u2019 as though we lived on another planet. Naturally, this absence led our imaginations to become huge, crazy. We went so far as to imagine that the trees outside were a different colour, that people took other forms, and the anxiety about what lay out there in the world became so enormous that one day I decided to escape<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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Untitled<\/em> (1978). \u00a9 Courtesy of the estate and Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur, Paris. Photo: Alksei Kostromin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The myth of Emma Reyes<\/h2>\n\n

Seizing her chance at the age of 18<\/strong>, Emma Reyes jumped into a train for Bogot\u00e1<\/strong>. \u201cEverything was so unreal, because I\u2019d never seen a train, or a tram, or even a car.<\/em>\u201d She recounted this escape, and her extraordinary, tragic childhood in the book Memoria por correspondencia<\/em> (published in 2012, it topped Columbia\u2019s best-seller list that year). Indeed so exceptional was her childhood that Columbian television broadcast a 14-episode series about it in 2021 titled Emma Reyes \u2013 La huella de la infancia(Emma Reyes \u2013 the Traces of Childhood)<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

Last century, it was normal to have doubts if an artist\u2019s biography<\/strong> seemed to occupy more space than their work, and offered far more exciting narrative angles than the switch from figuration to abstraction or the sudden abandoning of colour\u2026 But in the 21st century, these stories have taken on greater importance. As the art correspondent to the French daily Les \u00c9chos<\/em>, Judith Benhamou-Huet, wrote almost 20 years ago in her 2007 book Art Business<\/em>, \u201cIn the art market as we know it today, an artist\u2019s work can also be read through the prism of the myth that might be associated with it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n

In the case of Emma Reyes<\/strong>, the myth<\/strong> found an uninterrupted succession of occasions to express itself – reminding us perhaps that we sometimes expect artists\u2019 lives to be so different from ours, so that all the fantasy of their existence, even when horribly cruel, will avenge us for the ordinariness of our own.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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\u201cI lived in a world of dreams and abstraction, because we referred to everything that happened outside the convent as \u2018the world,\u2019 as though we lived on another planet.<\/em>\u201d – Emma Reyes in 1976.<\/h3><\/h3>\n\n

After leaving the convent, Emma Reyes lived in Paraguay<\/strong>, travelled all over Argentina before working for an architect\u2019s office in Buenos Aires<\/strong>, moved to Washington, helped organize the first monographic Frida Kahlo<\/strong> exhibition, spent time in Mexico City<\/strong>, where she taught at the fine-arts school, moved to Rome<\/strong> in the 1950s, went out with Alberto Moravia, frequented the Roman intelligentsia, and finally moved<\/strong> to France in 1960\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n\n

There isn\u2019t an instant in her life that is not propitious to the fabrication of the myth, including the current show at the Galerie Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur<\/strong> in Paris, a city where she first showed work in 1967, at the Galerie de Beaune. In her lifetime, she only had four exhibitions in French galleries, and no French dealers represented her long term.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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Untitled<\/em> (1985). \u00a9 Courtesy of the estate and Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur, Paris. Photo: Alksei Kostromin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

A curious relationship between humanity and nature<\/h2>\n\n

The Galerie Claude Bernard<\/strong> showed her work in the 60s, but it also represented her friend Fernando Botero<\/strong>. Although he lent her his studio in the rue Monsieur-le-Prince, and had long discussions with her about the use of colour in her canvases, he refused to allow his gallery to represent any Colombian artists other than him. Alix Dionot-Morani <\/strong>and Axel Dibie<\/strong>, founders of the Galerie Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur<\/strong>, got the full measure of the Reyes myth when, after discovering her work two years ago, they went to Cali in Colombia to meet with a family that owns a large number of the artist\u2019s paintings.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

\u201cFrom the start, we\u2019ve been leading an investigation, and we discovered Reyes\u2019s work in Cali, where this family owns canvases that date from 1953 to 2000. There\u2019s a real variety, and for us the chance to see all the series she experimented with<\/em>.\u201d While exploring the archives, they came across other unexpected finds, such as a portrait of Emma Reyes<\/strong> by Paul Thek<\/strong> (1933\u201388) and the guest book from her 1967 rue de Beaune show, signed by figures such as the actor Jean Marais, the painters Henri Cueco and Fernando Botero, the author Edmonde Charles-Roux, and \u201cJohnny Hallyday, y\u00e9y\u00e9 singer<\/em>,\u201d as the French rock star<\/strong> described himself in it.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

So much for the life \u2013 what about the work? We see it today in all the mysterious retrospective coherence of an idiosyncratic style that was rather hastily labelled \u201cmagic realism,\u201d for want of a better term. Over a 50-year period, we find portraits and representations<\/strong> of plants, the former often mixed with the latter, creating a curious relationship between humanity and nature.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

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Close-ups and explosive colors<\/h2>\n\n

Her colours are explosive and expertly put together, and her way of framing her subjects in closeups<\/strong> that make them somehow bigger than the canvas recalls to a certain extent Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/strong><\/a>, although her manner of painting is very much her own, characterized by volumes and shadows that emanate from the English text fine black lines that striate the surface.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

While the influence of Colombian muralists can be felt as much of that of Cubism or Op Art, what one sees above all is the expression of a world that is hers alone, a world that is perhaps on the point of overwhelming us, like in the 14 meter-long fresco she painted in 1988 on the walls of the P\u00e9rigueux Municipal Library, where giant flowers seem set to devour the readers \u2013 or to draw them into her imaginary world. If she ended up in P\u00e9rigueux<\/strong>, it\u2019s because her husband, Jean Perromat, had taken over his father\u2019s surgery.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

She had lost touch with him, then found him again; she didn\u2019t agree to join him in the south, but stayed in Paris<\/strong> where she painted every day until 6.00 pm on the dot. But she promised she would go live him when he retired, which she did. A P\u00e9rigueux primary school now bears her name, which is rather ironic given that she was never taught to read during her convent upbringing. Finally revealed to a wider audience, who is discovering it today, Reyes\u2019s oeuvre is now out there in the world, and has found its own singular place, several decades after its creator\u2019s death, in the history of art<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n

\u201cEmma Reyes. Naturaleza muerta resucitando\u201d, exhibition open until November 29th, 2025, at galerie Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur<\/a>, 9 rue des Cascades, Paris 20th.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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