Genevieve Pezet

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[1] (December 19, 1913 – January 23, 2009) was an American-born French artist, known for her paintings, ceramics, and sculptures.[2] She was most active from around the 1940s until 2000.

Life

Genevieve Beatrice White was born December 19, 1913,[3] in Sandpoint, Idaho and she was raised in Troy, Montana.^[citation needed] In 1928, she attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.[2]

Pezet started painting while studying philosophy at Columbia University.[1] She continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York, while teaching at the New York School of Interior Design.[2] 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.[2][4] In 1948, she married Jacques Pezet at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris.[5] Together they had two sons.[5]

In 1954, she participated in the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture at Musée Rodin.[6]

She died in Pénestin, Morbihan in France, on January 23, 2009.^[citation needed]

References

1. Genevieve pseudonym of Pezet, Genevieve; maiden name: White. Oxford University Press. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00072263. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
2. 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.
3. "Geneviève Pezet | 6 Artworks at Auction | MutualArt". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
4. "Paris : Le Messager, une oeuvre monumentale d'Ossip Zadkine - Quai d'Orsay - VIIème Author Caroline Hauer". Paris la Douce. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
5. Geneviève, An American artist in Paris. Editions Art Futura. 2003.
6. 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.