School : post-abstraction. Recognized masters: Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Piet Mondrian.

• 1948. Frequents the studios of Fernand Léger, André LHote.
• 1955. Works for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in California, USA.
• 1959. Settles in Paris. Meets Alberto Giacometti
• 1962. Theodore Shempp becomes his dealer. First exhibitions at Aimé Maeght, acclaimed by Chagall and Miro.
• 1965. Works in etching. Sale of several oils to Joseph Hirshhorn (coll. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithonian Institution, Washington, USA). Exhibition at Galerie Maeght, Paris.
• 1972. Raoul Ubac sees his work as “working on the slow, progressive reconstitution of a single body”, a style that Dora Vallier declares “post-abstraite”.

Solo exhibitions

• Galerie Michel Vokaer, Brussels. 1972, 1975, 1981.
• Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence. 1974.
• Galerie Maeght, Paris, Zurich and Barcelona. 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982.
• Spaightwood Galleries, Madison, Wisconsin. 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988.
• Galerie Lelong, Paris. 1984, 1988.
• Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
• Middletown, Connecticut. 1985.
• Chantal Bamberger Gallery, Strasbourg. June-July 2010.

Public collections

• Canada. Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec.
• France. Cantini Museum, Marseille. – Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris. – Musée national d’Art moderne, Paris. – Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, Paris.
• Switzerland. Musée Jenish, Vevey. – Swiss National Library, Bern.
• Netherlands. Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam.
• United States. Art Institute of Chicago (Leigh B.Block donation). – MoMa, New York. – Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut. – Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin. – Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati.

Four-handed works

• Poetry. Yves Bonnefoy, for “L’ordalie et Derrière le miroir”. 1975. – Philippe Jaccotet, for “Placard Jaccotet-Garache”. 1975. – Alain Veinstein, for “Ebauche du féminin”. 1980. – Edmond Jabès, for “Désir d’un commencement, Angoisse d’une seule fin”. Fata Morgana, 1991. – Italo Svevo, for “Une vie”. 1991. – Jean Starobinski, for “La Caresse et le fouet”, André Chénier. Et “Si cette figure porte un nom”. 1999.
• Cinema. Vincente Minnelli, for “The Passionate Life of Vincent Van Gogh”. 1956. – Alain Resnais, for “L’année dernière à Marienbad”. 1961.

Reviews and essays on the work of C.Garache

Marc Le Bot, Claude Garache. Revue Arts n° 319, 1980. – Marc Fumaroli, Depuis longtemps, Vénus… Cahiers d’art contemporain. 1988. – Georges Duby, Garache. Exhibition catalog, Musée d’Orange. 1992. – Michael Edwards, Claude Garache. Paintings and Sanguine. French Institute, London, 1994. – Jacques Dupin, Garache, drawings. Adam Biro ed. 1999. Amaury Nauroy, Vie secrète (Cl.Garache). Lausanne, rbl, n°2. 2015.