In her figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, Claire Tabouret scrutinizes identity and takes a closer look at childhood and its enigmas, the individual isolated or within a group. Sometimes covered, made up or disguised, children and women with mute faces stand upright in front of the viewer like frozen frames. The recent immersive mural realized at Fabrègues Castle in the south of France is an example of the timeless and sometimes carnivalesque universe that the artist creates in her paintings. Often coated with a primary fluorescent layer, and realized on large-scale canvas, her works, whose tonalities are sometimes dark and sometimes acidic, as in the ensemble of the Débutantes, exude theatrical enigma. Before the representation of groups and characters, which may recall those of Romantic painting, Claire Tabouret was often interested in aquatic diurnal and nocturnal landscapes. During this time, she notably realized the Maisons Inondées, the series which brought her to recognition, as well as the ensemble entitled Migrants. Originating in internet or archival found photographs, her canvases are tainted with personal experience, unfurling a universe of stories and memories.
Claire Tabouret
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Claire Tabouret, Sitting, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
230 x 300 cm
90 1/2 x 118 1/8 in
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Claire Tabouret, Muddy River, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
220 x 300 x 4 cm
86 5/8 x 118 1/8 x 1 5/8
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Claire Tabouret, As If All Hearts Were Mirrors, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
220 x 300 x 4 cm
86 5/8 x 118 1/8 x 1 5/8
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Claire Tabouret, Orange Symbiosis, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 210 x 2,5 cm
55 1/8 x 82 5/8 x 1 inches -
Claire Tabouret, From the Blue Sun, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 91 x 3,5 cm
23 5/8 x 35 7/8 x 1 3/8
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Claire Tabouret, To Their End, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
180 x 250 x 4 cm
70 7/8 x 98 3/8 x 1 5/8
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Claire Tabouret, In Your Arms, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
115,5 x 89 x 2 cm
45 1/2 x 35 x 0 3/4 inches -
Claire Tabouret, Mirrors and Windows, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 200 x 5 cm
51 1/8 x 78 3/4 x 2 inches -
Claire Tabouret, The Grip, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
97 x 130 x 2 cm
38 1/4 x 51 1/8 x 0 3/4
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Claire Tabouret, Dancing in Circles (yellow), 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, As if All Hearts Were Mirrors (yellow), 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, The Colors of the Embrace, 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Duel in the Sun (shadows), 2018
Ink and collage on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, The Dance (red shadows), 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Symbiosis (yellow), 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Careved in Stone (yellow), 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Duel in the Sun (yellow), 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, To Be As One (red), 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, The Dancing Shadows, 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, In Your Arms (pastel), 2018
Ink on paper
76 x 63 cm (framed)
29 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches
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The Grip (pale), 2018
Ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Lean on Me, 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
76 x 63 cm (framed)
29 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches
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Claire Tabouret, Symbiosis (red), 2018
Acrylic and ink on paper
63 x 76 cm (framed)
24 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches
(framed)
Exhibitions
Museum Exhibitions
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Masterworks on Loan
— • Jordan Schnitzer Museum at The University Of Oregon, Eugene, USA -
La Ronde
— • Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France -
If Only The Sea Could Sleep
— • HAB Galerie -
L'Errante
— • Eglise des Célestins, Avignon, France -
Les Veilleurs
— • Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Selected press
- Frédérique Dedet & Béatrice Brasseur, ‘À la conquête de l'Ouest', Les Echos Série Limitée, February 2020 — 0.0
- 'Le Voyage à Nantes 2019 en met plein la vue', L'Express, July 2019 — 0.0
- Emmanuelle Jardonnet, 'A Nantes, nids urbains et voiles picturales', Le Monde, July 2019 — 0.0
- Du Junzi, ‘Art is the End of Time’, Vision Magazine, June 2019 — 0.0
- Ingrid Luquet-Gad, ‘Au-delà de la muse', Les Inrockuptibles, April 2019 — 0.0
- Béatrice de Rochebouët, ‘Les femmes en "Vogue" à la Monnaie de Paris’, Le Figaro, February 14, 2019 — 0.0
- Claire Tabouret, 'Assa Traoré', Vogue, January 2019 — 0.0
- Emmanuel Abela, Héléna Coupette, ‘Claire Tabouret, la peinture et le monde’, October 2018 — 0.0
- Jacqueline Lewis, ‘No More Tears’, LaLaMag, Summer 2018 — 0.0
- Jean-Marie Durand, ‘Champ magnétique’, Les Inrockuptibles, 27th June 2018 — 0.0
- Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Claire Tabouret’, Télérama, 21th June 2018 — 0.0
- Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, ‘Les enfants de Claire Tabouret à l’affiche du festival d’Avignon’, Beaux Arts, 6th July 2018 — 0.0
- Anne Sophie Lesage-Münch, ‘Claire Tabouret signe l’affiche du festival d’Avignon 2018’, Connaissance des arts, 30th March 2018 — 0.0
- ‘Claire Tabouret, la peintre qui s’inspire des migrants', LeMonde, 11th August 2017 — 0.0
- ‘Les rendez-vous de la rentrée’, Connaissance des arts, 11th September 2017 — 0.0
- ‘L’art contemporain s’invite dans un château du XVIIe’, Numéro, 31th August 2017 — 0.0
- Julie Ackermann,‘Au château de Fabrègues, le carnaval fantomatique de Claire Tabouret’,21th August 2017 — 0.0
- Béatrice De Rochebouët,'La chapelle rêvée de Pierre Yovanovitch', Le Monde, 24th July 2017 — 0.0
- Lorraine Rossignol, 'La vie est une toile blanche', Télérama, 14th June 2017 — 0.0
- Philippe Piguet, '"Identité mouvante" Claire Tabouret, L’Oeil, May 2017 — 0.0
- Anne-Cécile Sanchez Piguet, 'Claire Tabouret : l'Infatigable succès', Le Journal des Arts, March 2017 — 0.0
- Valérie Duponchelle, 'Claire Tabouret, peintre dans l'âme', Le Figaro, 29th December, 2016 — 0.0
- Elizabeth Vedrenne, 'Claire Tabouret : Portraitiste insoumise', Connaissance des arts, March 2016 — 0.0
- Sophie Rahal, 'Claire Tabouret, peintre à la conquête de l'Ouest', Télérama, 28 th January 2016 — 0.0
- Anne Diatkine, 'Claire Tabouret, reine', Libération, 22 January 2015 — 0.0
- Judicaël Lavrador, 'Claire Tabouret, Une jeune artiste qui nous regarde', Beaux Arts Magazine:, January 2015 — 0.0
- Fabien Simode, 'Claire Tabouret, La résistance par la peinture', L'Œil, October 2014 — 0.0
- Léa Bismuth, 'Claire Tabouret', ArtPress, September 2012 — 0.0
- Marion Vignal, ‘Avec la Collection Pinault, François Pinault veut promouvoir les femmes artistes', Marie Claire, February 2021 — 0.0