Raymonde Godin

Raymonde Godin, born in 1930 in Montreal and passed away in 2023, was a Quebec-born painter who lived and worked in France from 1954 onward, settling in the Drôme region. Her work, rooted in abstraction, reveals a strong sensitivity to color, form, and light, and is known for its poetic and lyrical qualities.

She took part in several major exhibitions, including the 2020 group exhibition at the Soulages Museum in Rodez focusing on women artists of the 1950s. In 2022, she was featured in a solo show at the Convergences gallery in Paris.

Her work is included in several major public collections, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Musée d’art moderne de Paris, and the National Gallery of Canada. Raymonde Godin remains a significant figure in the world of lyrical abstraction and Canadian art history.