Georges Valmier was a French painter born in 1885 in Angoulême and died in 1937 in Montmartre. Trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, he moved through major modern art movements, from post-impressionism to Cubism and later abstraction.
Living in Montmartre, he developed a strong artistic sensitivity shaped by painting and music. Around the 1910s, he turned toward Cubism, influenced by artists such as Juan Gris and Albert Gleizes. After World War I, he became associated with the dealer Léonce Rosenberg, who strongly supported his career.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Valmier progressively developed a vivid and structured abstract style, producing numerous preparatory gouaches that were often works in their own right. He was also involved in theatre design and decorative arts and was a member of the Abstraction-Création group. He died in 1937, leaving a relatively small but highly inventive body of work characterized by bold formal experimentation and a strong sense of color.