Marie Raymond is a painter who was a precursor to French abstraction. Her style is characterized by vibrant colors and a bold use of light and texture.

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She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where she rubbed shoulders with artists like Frantisek Kupka and Piet Mondrian and put Fred Klein there. From this union was born Yves Klein, known for his Klein Blue. In 1938, the family moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer, as matisse, Bonnard, Arp gold Delaunay. Marie Raymond then began to paint “imaginary landscapes”, with informal and geometric compositions, thus abandoning figuration.

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Until 1954, she opened her studio apartment every Monday, creating “Marie Raymond's Mondays.” Pierre Soulages, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Caesar, Jean Tinguely And Hans Hartung Meet there. She was one of the first women to exhibit at the Salon des Surin Paris and won the Kandinsky Prize in 1949. She exhibits in renowned galleries in São Paulo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Oslo

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Marie Raymond's works are present in several private and public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Artizon Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Georges-Pompidou Center in Paris, the Grimaldi Château-Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Museum of Arts in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Museum of Arts in Nantes, the Museum of Arts in Nantes, the Museum of Arts in Nantes, the National Center for Plastic Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts in Angers, where an exhibition was dedicated to her in 2004 alongside her son.