Richard Chanlaire
(1896 - 1973) France
Painter
Chanlaire exhibited regularly in Paris: at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1928-29, the Salon des Tuileries in 1929-30 and the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in 1931-32. He became known, almost by accident, for painting on fabrics. For a bet he improvised an evening shawl for a lady who had forgotten her own. Later Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain and Jacques Fath engaged Chanlaire to design items in their collections. As well as garments, Chanlaire also worked on tablecloths, screens and curtains.
During the late 1920s the composer Francis Poulenc came to realize his homosexuality and met his first lover, the painter Richard Chanlaire, to whom he dedicated his Concert champêtre: "You have changed my life, you are the sunshine of my thirty years, a reason for living and working."
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