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Jeanne Socquet (24 November 1928 – 17 October 2024) was a French painter and mosaicist. She was a neo-expressionist who created a wide variety of mosaics.

Biography

Born in Paris on 24 November 1928, Socquet was the oldest of four children. In 1945, she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress. At the age of 21, she left home and began her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and subsequently at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1956, she married the architect Louis Seignon, who she met at the Beaux-Arts and had a son with him. However, she was forced to raise their son alone when Seignon was killed in a traffic collision in the 1960s. She then directed her art focus on marginalized people, such as those in psychiatric hospitals or those who did not conform to societal beauty standards. Her exhibition titles embraced these themes, with names such as Jeanne Socquet, peindre la solitude and La folie peinte par Jeanne Socquet.

In 1972, she joined a group of women activists, La Spirale, founded by Charlotte Calmis [fr]. The following year, she co-wrote a book titled La création étouffée with Suzanne Horer. The work acted as a feminist manifesto and a tribute to femininity in the realm of artwork. Throughout her career, her works were praised by the likes of Jacques Leenhardt, Marguerite Duras, and Armand Lanoux.

Socquet died on 17 October 2024, at the age of 95.

Illustrated works

• New-York balafres (2005)

Publications

• La création étouffée (1973)
• Son prochain comme soi-même (2014)
• Les Contes du Whisky délicieux sous la pluie (2015)
• L'enfance de Celestine (2016)

References

1. "Socquet, Jeanne". Union List of Artist Names.
2. "Jeanne Socquet". Espace Christian Peugeot (in French). Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
3. ^ "SOCQUET, Jeanne". Benezit (in French). Archived from the original on 28 October 2016.
4. ^ Bard, Christian (2017). Dictionnaire des féministes - France, XVIIIe-Modèle:XXie siècle (in French). Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
5. "Jeanne Socquet". Art Aujourd'hui (in French). Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.
6. "Productions d'expositions : Exposition Jeanne Socquet - Les folles". JUKO Access (in French).
7. "suite ARTENSION N°9". Le blog de Fanfg (in French). 13 October 2008. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015.
8. Bonnet, Marie-Jo (2006). Les femmes artistes dans les avant-gardes (in French). Odile Jacob. pp. 87–95.
9. "La création étouffée – petite suite… sur une femme artiste sculpteur, Simone Mary". lepapillondeslivrescerclerenevigo (in French).
10. Leenhardt, Jacques. Connaître la peinture de Jeanne Socquet (in French). Jacques Dopagne.
11. "Socquet, Jeanne". Le Delarge (in French).
12. Lanoux, Armand (1968). Jeanne Socquet, (in French). Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier.
13. "Micheline SEIGNON dite Jeanne SOCQUET". Le Figaro (in French).
14. "New York, balafres". Le Figaro (in French). Archived from the original on 24 June 2015.

• 1928 births
• 2024 deaths
• French painters
• Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière
• Painters from Paris