Nicolas Carréga, Growth Sculpture, Cast Aluminum, 1970s

"Growth" Cast aluminum sculpture. Artist's proof numbered 1/6 and marked Blanchet Fondeur (Foundry).

NICOLAS CARRÉGA

1914 - 1993
Painter, Sculptor, Engraver
Nicolas Carréga
Divet Gallery, Rennes
Nicolas Carréga, painter, sculptor, engraver, and medalist, was born on February 21, 1914, in Bonifacio, Corsica, and died on January 29, 1993, in Versailles.

In 1921, he moved to Le Havre with his parents. During the summer holidays, he returned to Corsica. His life was divided between the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

These two poles of attraction would be a constant source of inspiration and creativity for his entire body of work.

In 1938, he began to paint and settled in Viroflay, Yvelines.

After winning a drawing prize at the Concours Général, he attended the free studios of Montparnasse and drawing classes in Paris, eventually becoming a drawing teacher in Versailles and head of a studio at the University of Paris.

He was an Officer of the Order of Academic Palms and of National Devotion.

A figurative artist until the late 1950s, he gradually moved towards abstraction.

He participated in major salons, of which he was often a member, and regularly presented his works in solo exhibitions in France and abroad.
Since 1995, the Carrega donation has allowed his works to be permanently displayed in a room bearing his name in the Torrione of Bonifacio, his birthplace.

Solo Exhibitions

1948 Galerie Drouot-Provence
1951 Galerie Jacques Hamon, Le Havre
1954 Galerie Suillerot, Paris
1955 Galerie M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam
1956 Galerie Gérard Mourgue Paris
1957 Museum of Fine Arts, Poitiers
1958 Jacques Hamon Gallery, Le Havre
1960 University Gallery, Paris
1963 University Gallery, Paris
1964 Alice Juillard Gallery, Versailles
1966 Alice Juillard Gallery, Versailles
1975 House of Culture and Leisure, Saint-Étienne
1980 Écluzelles Studio
1982 Georges Garnier Gallery, Amiens
1983 Retrospective at the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint)

Works in Museums

National Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
Museum of the Province of Quebec

Louvois Chapel, Saint-Eustache Church, Viroflay
Pinacotheca of Athens
Élysée Palace Paris
Paris City Hall
Museum of the Two World Wars; National Hotel of Les Invalides, Paris
Hélène Boucher Museum, Boigneville
Museum of Fine Arts, Poitiers
André Malraux Museum of Fine Arts, Le Havre
Annaba City Hall
Mint Museum, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes
Viroflay City Hall
Museum of Medals, Wroclaw (Poland)
State and City of Paris Collections

Exhibitions

Salon des Indépendants (member), Paris
Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Salon Populiste, Paris
Salon des Jeunes Peintres, Paris
Salon d’Automne (member), Paris
Salon de l’Île-de-France, Versailles Drawing and Watercolor Exhibition. Paris.
Roman Exhibition. (Drôme)
Sacred Art Exhibition. Paris.
Latin Lands Exhibition. Paris.
Painters Witnessing Their Time Exhibition. Paris.
Comparisons Exhibition. Paris.
Asnières Exhibition.
Marine Exhibition. Paris.
New Realities Exhibition. Paris.
May Exhibition. Paris.
Montrouge Exhibition.
Arts Exhibition. Cergy-Pontoise.
Young Contemporary Engraving Exhibition. Paris.
"South 92" Exhibition. Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Society of Decorative Artists Exhibition. Paris.

Group Exhibitions

1943 Dance Exhibition. Pyramides Gallery. Paris;

1944 Sport in Art. School of Fine Arts. Paris

1946 Some Painters. Paris. Rio de Janeiro
Art and Resistance. National Museum of Modern Art. Paris.

Contemporary Artists. Continental Art Gallery. Biarritz
Contemporary Artists. Saintes Museum of Fine Arts
1947 Music Evoked by Painters. Krieger Capucine Gallery. Paris.
Homage to Greece. Athens Art Gallery
1948 Some French Artists in South Bend
Some French Artists in Quebec
Corsiac Prize. Marseille School of Fine Arts.
Impressionists and Contemporary Artists. Hamon Gallery. Le Havre.

1951 Carréga, Du Jannerand, Roederer. Seine Gallery, Paris.
Paintings of France. Hamon Gallery, Le Havre.
People and Culture Prize. Annecy.
Subject Review, 3-4-5, Serigraphs. Marcel Sauthier Bookstore-Gallery, Paris.

1952 Young Painting. Museum of Fine Arts, Poitiers. Inauguration of the new stores by the master designer Beaudoin. Le Havre.

1952 Young Painters Prize.

1953 Drouant David Gallery, Paris.

1953 Participation in Kermesse aux Étoiles (Visual Arts Stand), Tuileries Garden, Paris.

"The Girls," Monique Groote Gallery, Paris.
"Glory to Wine," Suillerot Gallery, Paris.
2nd, 3rd, and 4th Biennial, Menton.

1954 "Versailles," Suillerot Gallery, Paris.

"Nudes," Lebar Gallery, Paris.
International Serigraphy Exhibition, National Serigraphy Society, New York.

"The New," Bassano Gallery, Paris.
Contemporary French Painting, Stiebel Gallery, Paris.
Critics' Prize Selection, Saint-Placide Gallery, Paris.
Contemporary Artists, Suillerot Gallery, La Baule. 100 Watercolors and drawings acquired by collectors at the Kermesse aux Étoiles. Galerie de l’Élysée, Paris.

1955 “Discover and Promote,” Galerie Carpentier, Paris.

“Girls, Flowers, and Sea,” Palais de la Méditerranée, Nice.

French Painters in Houston.
Traveling Exhibition. Selected for the Critics' Prize 1953-1954, Tokyo.
Watercolors and drawings from the Kermesse aux Étoiles. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

“July 14th,” Galerie Suillerot, Paris.
“Young French Painting,” Offenbach am Main, Munich.
“Painters Witnessing Their Time,” Honfleur.
“Painters Witnessing Their Time,” Tours.

“July 14th,” Galerie Hamon, Le Havre.

1956 “Birds and Flowers,” Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris.
“Small Formats,” Galerie Zéro Figure. Paris
"Carnival" Galerie Monique de Groote, Paris
"Recall and Presence" Galerie Barbizon, Paris
Drawings and Illustrations of Poems by Gérard Murail, Paris
"Below 0" Galerie Zéro Figure, Paris

"Faces of Childhood" Galerie Simone Badinier, Paris

Carréga, Sablé, Vignoles, Yankel. Galerie G. Mourgue, Paris
"Homage to Chardin" Galerie Chardin, Paris

"Days of France" Galerie Zéro Figure, Paris

"Holidays" Galerie Gérard Mourgue, Paris
Contemporary French Painting: The Great and the Young of Today, London

"Games" Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris
Amedeo Modigliani Drawing Prize Exhibition, Casa della Cultura, Livorno 1956 Contemporary Painters: from Utrillo to Picasso.

1957 Palais-Royal Garden, Paris.

Contemporary Painters at the Grenier-à-Sel, Honfleur.

"Saint-Germain-des-Prés" by 20 Painters. Barbizon Gallery, Paris.