Marie Raymond was born into a middle class family in Var, located in the South of France. Her love for painting was born in the studio of Alexandre Stoppler, located in Cagnes-sur-Mer near Mougins. In 1926, she married Fred Klein and gave birth to Yves, the world renowned artist who was a leading figure in the artistic movement, Nouveau réalisme. Her artistic trajectory was decisively shaped by the courses she undertook at the Decorative Arts, as well as her encounters with Soulages, Tinguely, and Ionesco.

Her work unfolds in three distinct periods: first, imaginary and figurative landscapes, then a transition towards total abstraction after 1945, and finally an evolution towards representations of figures and celestial bodies using a rich chromatic palette on a large scale. Her reputation extends beyond borders, with regular exhibitions in Paris, across Europe, in Brazil, and Japan. She won the Kandinsky Prize in 1949 and was honored with a retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2004, as well as an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Angers. Marie Raymond now rests in the Colle-sur-Loup cemetery alongside her son.