Germaine Lacaze and her parents in Menton (1952)
Salon de l’Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs (Madame Vincent Auriol and Germaine Lacaze) (1952) in front of the canvas “Self-portrait at the easel”
Salon de l’Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs (Marthe Lebasque, Albert Sarrault, Germaine Lacaze) (1952)
Germaine Lacaze standing behind her seated father and to the left of her mother. On the right Jacqueline Cerrano. Window of the living room of Villeneuve-le-Comte (1953)
(photography Albert Séeberger – priv. coll. artist)
Germaine Lacaze with her family on a beach in Arcachon (1956)
1950
Private exhibition at the Pellas gallery in Lausanne.
Still life prize at the Salon de l’Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs.
Member of the Committee of the Salon of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Let us congratulate the young director of this new gallery for having chosen Germaine Lacaze for the inaugural exhibition. This artist, whose various exhibition entries (Indépendants, Femmes-Peintres and Automne) we have appreciated, knows how to establish a picture in a measured style. She also knows how to really paint it. Her still lifes and landscapes are “beautiful pieces of painting”. For this, in addition to the knowledge of the craft, she needs to possess a “little something” made of sensitivity, love and sincerity.
Lacaze’s last exhibition dated back to 1939, at Barreiro’s. We hope to see one in Paris soon.
Jean CHABANON – Le Peintre – December 1st 1950
We particularly notice one painting, a landscape of Castille which proves to be perfect, composed and drawn with care, translating a personal and seductive vision, and coming from a very harmonious palette.
Gaston POULAIN – Tribune de Lausanne – 7 December 1950
1951
Invited to the Menton Biennial. Travels to Greece and Turkey.
Appointed Officer of the Academy.
1952
Private exhibition at the Aranaz Darras gallery in San Sebastian.
Stay in Menton
Germaine Lacaze whose sound palette is brilliantly conducted by a very sure drawing.
Yvonne BLIGNE – The Painter – 1st May 1952
1953
Prize winner of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors. Silver medal at the 2nd Biennial of painting in Menton with “Reading Marcelle”. Trip to Toledo.
Death of her mother from cancer at the age of 66.
1954
Mentioned at the Vichy Salon. Participated in the Salon de Brantôme. Stays in Menton.
1955
Invited to the Menton Biennial. Participated in the Salon de la Marine. Participates in the Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau. Prize of the French Committee in Vichy (International Women’s Exhibition).
Death of her father at the age of 73.
Germaine Lacaze whose colourist power gives birth to an art of the highest order, the colour is disciplined by a drawing of perfect rigour.
Yvonne BLIGNE – Le Peintre – June 1st 1955
1956
Elected associate at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA).