René Rimbert : Catalogue Raisonné

From 1929, year of his first exhibition, to his 1984 retrospective, René Rimbert (1896-1991) produced about 300 paintings. His work is influenced by neo-realism and Dutch painting of the Golden Age. Rimbert's first paintings were mainly still lifes, but he soon began to paint picturesque buildings and street scenes in his native Paris, its suburbs and in provincial towns, as well as landscapes. The village and surrounding countryside of Perpezac-le-Noir, in Corrèze, where his wife's family came from, is also often depicted.

This catalogue raisonné, which lists 276 paintings, is the result of more than 30 years of contact and friendship between the author and the artist, his wife and his daughter. It aims to correct a misconception that René Rimbert was a naive painter.