Georgette Agutte
Georgette Agutte (born May 17, 1867 in Paris , † September 5, 1922 in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ) was a French painter and sculptor of Post-Impressionism in the Belle Époque .
Life
Georgette Agutte was the daughter of the painter Jean Georges Agutte and his wife Maria Debladis. Georgette Agutte received her first drawing lessons from Gustave Moreau , who urged her to continue studying at the Académie des Beaux-Arts .
During this time she met her first husband, the art critic Paul Flat (1857–1932). Through him, she met the city's most famous artists, including the painters Georges Braque , Henri Matisse , Paul Signac , Paul Cézanne , Claude Monet and the writer Émile Zola . Their marriage fell apart after the affair with one of their models became known - the marriage divorced in 1894.
In the following years Agutte exhibited at the Société des Artistes Indépendants and at the Salon d'Automne . Georgette Agutte painted nudes throughout her life , which are the second largest group of works after portraits . During the First World War , Agutte visited the painter Auguste Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer ; she also met Amedeo Modigliani , Jeanne Hébuterne and Pablo Picasso .
On September 4, 1922, her second husband, the lawyer and politician Marcel Sembat (1862–1922), died of tuberculous meningitis in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. The following day, Georgette Agutte ended her life by suicide and was buried next to her husband in the local cemetery.
The Grenoble Museum now has 42 of her paintings; a retrospective was held in 2003.
The writer Anne Gesthuysen deals with the fate of Agutte and her second husband in her novel Be Me a Father (2015).
Works (selection)
The blue Dress , oil on canvas, undated ( Museum Grenoble )
The White and Green Hat , oil on canvas, undated
La Source , 1902
literature
- Françoise Celdran and Ramon Vidal y Plana: Triangle Matisse Agutte Sembat , Montigny le Bretonneux, Yvelinédition (2007)
- La collection Agutte-Sembat , ed. from the Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble 2003, ISBN 2-7118-4665-2
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agutte, georgette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Georgette Sembat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter in the Belle Époque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1922 |
| Place of death | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc |