MARIE CLAUDE BUGEAUD
BIOGRAPHY
Marie-Claude Bugeaud is a French artist born in 1941 in Paris. A certified art teacher, she teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'art in Paris. She has exhibited at venues including the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon, the Galerie nationale des Gobelins, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Lô. Her works are included in various public collections, such as the National Contemporary Art Fund, the City of Paris Municipal Collection, and the Ring Artothèque in Nantes.
"In her paintings, figures, patterns, signs appear and play with line and cutting. Irregular squares, dots, flowers, knots, arabesques, interlacing. These motifs borrow abstract or symbolic signs from primitive traditions or decorative systems: a detail for the whole, a wavy shape for the hair, a fold for the dress. In recent works, color returns: carmine reds, acid yellows, washed-out blues. Color supports of the signs, which by line or by mass, cross the painting.
Marie-Claude Bugeaud is a painter of oscillation. Between line and color, between abstraction and allusion to a few motifs — hair, mouth, ... — her work progresses. Forces confront each other and find, in this very confrontation, their rightful place. The lightness of the arabesques combats the darkness of the dots. Concentration, the weight of the points come, against this lightness, to call back to the tragic order of the world."
— Pierre Wat, catalog of the Marie-Claude Bugeaud exhibition, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, 2000
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- The gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary. Carte blanche to Pierre Wat, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Drawing Now, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
2025
- 8 femmes, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2023
- Une élégante radicalité, Maison du Cygne, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
2022
- Dedans/Dehors, Galerie Béa-Ba, Marseille, France
2021
- 3 femmes en couleurs, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2019
- Colin-Collin, Demozay, Galerie Béa-Ba, Marseille, France
2018
- La liberté à l’œuvre, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Three free, Galerie du Canon, Toulon, France
2016
- Peintures, 2015-2016, Djeziri-Bonn Gallery, Paris, France
2015
- Concrète fiction,Galerie béa-ba, Marseille, France
- Autour du livre, Galerie Djeziri Bonn, Paris, France
2013
- Galerie Djeziri Bonn-Linard, Paris, France
2011
- Galerie Jean-Greset, Besançon, France
- Galerie AL/MA, Montpellier, France
2010
- Galerie Eric Linard, La Garde Adhémar, France
2009
- Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
- Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris, France
2005
- Les Judith, Abbey Church of Bernay, Eure, France
- Galerie Franch Font, Montpellier, France
- L'art dans les chapelles, Saint Tugdual, Quistinic, France
2003
- Le 19, CRAC: Art School of Belfort, Belfort, France
- Artistic moments, Christian Aubert, Paris, France
2002
- Galerie Julio Gonzalez, Arcueil, France
2001
- Galerie de l'ESAD, Reims, France
2000
- Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Malakoff, France
1999
- Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris, France
1995
- Galerie Pierre Colt, Nice, France
1993
- FIAC, Galerie Pierre Colt, France
- Galerie Pierre Colt, Nice, France
1992
- Centre d'art Passages, Troyes, France
- Galerie Veronique Smagghe, Paris, France
- Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Fabre Museum of Montpellier
Bon Marché Rive Gauche Paris
Collection of the General Council of Var
National Fund for Contemporary Art
Municipal fund of the city of Paris
Municipal collection of works on paper, Vitry
Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Fund for Contemporary Art
Val-de-Marne Departmental Fund for Contemporary Art
Le Ring, Nantes Art Library
Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) - French embassies in Oman and Libya & Palais de l'Élysée