Renee Theobald

“Boats”

Renee Theobald was a French Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1926 in Paris, France. She studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. And in 1953 she won the first prize for Landscape at the Deauville International Competition, and in 1956 she also won an Art Scholarship in Paris. Later on she got the first prize for Composition, Cannes International Competition in 1957 and the Sociéte des Amateurs d’Art et Collectionneurs in 1962. Theobald was known for Palette knife impressionist painting, landscape and coastal scenes. Through the years, she developed a style which is uniquely personal. Her paintings reveal the confidence of stroke only of years of evolution, from hard work and study, can produce. While her paintings are masterfully constructed, they are full of spontaneity, with which she paints and her rich and varied palette, produce not only the image of the subject but its very essence. Her works were a part of numerous group shows and special exhibitions like: the Museum of Modern Art: Selection of the Pacquement Prize; Musée Galleria, Paris, 1967; “Les Artiste Français” Montreal, Quebec; Tapestry design: Chartres 1971; “Les Peintres Temoins de leur Temps” Japan 1973 & 1974; Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, December 1975; “Five French Painters” Newman-Saunders Gallery, Philadelphia 1998; and the “Ecole de Paris – 50 Years” University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, August – October 1998 among others. She also had a number of individual exhibitors starting early in her artistic career, in 1951 in Paris at the ‘Galerie Cardo Matignon’; and had her first solo show at the prestigious De Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. Renee Theobald's art has been exhibited in major museums and can be found in some of the most prestigious public and private collections worldwide like Paris and Saint-Maur in France, London in the United Kingdom, Bougie in Algeria, Ovar in Portugal, Museum of the Marine and the Museum of San Francisco. As well her pieces where a part of the Salon d’Automne, Salon de la Sociéte Natonale des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Independants, Salon de Courbevoie, Salon de la Marine and the Palais du Trocadero. Renee’s joy of living, with a deep inner serenity become an intricate part of each canvas. All her travel experiences always added to her vast array of subjects. The viewer is always aware of her sensitivity to her surroundings and her ability to express her insights. Theobald died in 2014 in Paris, France leaving behind a vast number of works to be enjoyed by critics and collectors alike.