Georges Valmier
b. 1885, Angoulême, France
d. 1937, Paris, France

Georges Valmier was a French painter who, in 1909, began experimenting with Cubism independently from both the Montmartre and Salon Cubists. In 1906 Valmier had enrolled at the Académie Hubert and by 1907 he had been accepted into the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. However, he found the education there too conservative, and soon became enamored instead with the oeuvre of Cézanne. Valmier had his public debut at the 1913 Salon des Indépendants. From 1918 until his death, he was represented by Léonce Rosenberg, and often wrote short essays for Léonce's Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne. In 1921 Léonce gave him his first solo show at his Galerie de l'Effort Moderne. Around a decade later, Georges Valmier became a founding member of the Abstraction-Création Movement, along with Jean Arp, Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion, and František Kupka. An evolution of Cubism, the group championed the use of geometric abstraction to achieve purity in their art.

Valmier's art can be found in public collections worldwide, including: the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou), Paris; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.