| Genevieve Pezet | |
|---|---|
 Self-portrait | |
| Born | Genevieve Beatrice White (1913-12-19)December 19, 1913 Sandpoint, Idaho, US |
| Died | January 23, 2009(2009-01-23) (aged 95) Pénestin, France |
| Known for | painting, sculpture, ceramics |
Genevieve Pezet, born as Genevieve Beatrice White, and mononymously signed her work Genevieve (December 19, 1913 – January 23, 2009) was an American-born French artist, known for her paintings, ceramics, and sculptures. She was most active from around the 1940s until 2000.
Life
Genevieve Beatrice White was born December 19, 1913, in Sandpoint, Idaho and she was raised in Troy, Montana. In 1928, she attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.
Pezet started painting while studying philosophy at Columbia University. She continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York, while teaching at the New York School of Interior Design. In 1947, she moved to Paris and she studied painting with André Lhote at the André Lhote Academy and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine in 1956 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1948, she married Jacques Pezet at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. Together they had two sons.
In 1954, she participated in the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture at Musée Rodin.
She died in Pénestin, Morbihan in France, on January 23, 2009.
References
- ^ Genevieve pseudonym of Pezet, Genevieve; maiden name: White. Oxford University Press. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00072263.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Akoun, J. P. A. (2005). Akoun: répertoire biographique d'artistes de tous pays des XIXe et XXe siècles. CV-XIX-XX (in French). Cote de l'amateu. p. 603. ISBN 9782859174293.
- "Geneviève Pezet | 6 Artworks at Auction | MutualArt". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- "Paris : Le Messager, une oeuvre monumentale d'Ossip Zadkine - Quai d'Orsay - VIIème Author Caroline Hauer". Paris la Douce. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ Geneviève, An American artist in Paris. Editions Art Futura. 2003.
- Michel Seuphor (1959). The Sculpture Of This Century Dictionary Of Modern Sculpture. Neuchatel, Switzerland: Editions du Griffon. p. 269 – via Internet Archive.
Additional reading
- Hazan, Fernand (1960). Dictionnaire de la Sculpture Moderne. Paris, France: Hazan.
- Seuphor, Michel (1959). La Sculpture de ce Siècle: Dictionnaire de la Sculpture Moderne [The Sculpture Of This Century: Dictionary Of Modern Sculpture] (in French). Neuchatel, Switzerland: Editions du Griffon. p. 269. ISBN 978-2880068820.
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