Germaine Lacaze on the liner France bound for New York (1966)
Germaine Lacaze at her exhibition at the Galerie Motte (1968)
Group exhibition at the gallery 65 of Cannes in 1969 with, in the window, “Still life, bouquet of lupins and cardboard of strawberries”
(1962 – 92 cm x 73 cm – CR 376)
1966
Group exhibition Findlay Gallery, New York.
Gold medal from the Association Arts Sciences et Lettres.
Trip to New York on the liner France.
1967
Group exhibition at the Galerie du Fleuve in Bordeaux.
Honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes français.
Initiates regular, almost yearly stays in Venice at the Gabrielli Sandwirth Hotel.
1968
Private exhibition (75 paintings) at the Motte Gallery in Geneva (preface by André Chamson).
Named Officer in the Order of the Palmes Académiques.
Germaine Lacaze exhibits at the Motte Gallery in Geneva a series of paintings evoking beaches, old Paris, gardens in the spirit of Bonnard, and also portraits of actresses. In his preface André Chamson expresses the qualities of Germaine Lacaze’s paintings.
Jeanine Warnod – Le Figaro – 24 April 1968
1969
Group exhibition at the Galerie 65 in Cannes.
Participated in the Salon international Paris-Sud in Juvisy.
1970
Participated in a group exhibition “La Palette Bleue” at the Romanet Gallery in Paris until 1973.
Travelled to Greece.
1971
Private exhibition under the patronage of the Girondins de Paris at the Galerie Jean Buisson.Private exhibition at the Saint-Placide Gallery in Paris.
Television programme “Peinture en liberté” Ile de France by Micheline Sandrel on her artist’s studio in Villeneuve-le-Comte. Selected for the Prix de la Critique.
Trip to Sicily. Christmas in Bordeaux.
There are painters who work on demand, satisfying the needs of their clients and exhibiting a new series of paintings every twelve months. And there are those who paint when they feel like it, for their own pleasure, without worrying about selling their work.
Germaine Lacaze belongs to the second category. Let us thank Jean Buisson for having decided to show in his restaurant-gallery (7 rue Corneille) some of the hundreds of paintings she has accumulated over the last thirty years.
Landscapes of France and Spain, perfectly framed characters, bouquets and still lifes reveal a magnificent colourist, with a very sure touch, to whom the large format is even more successful than the small.
Maurice TASSART- Le Parisien Libéré – 5 April 1971