1895–1982
René Richard was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He arrived in Canada with his family in 1909.
In 1926, he took his first painting and drawing lessons in Edmonton. He then left for France, where he attended painting classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi in Paris from 1927 to 1930.
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