Les Femmes Papillons
Hélène de Beauvoir (Paris 1910 - Paris 2001)
Lot-No. 135
Oil/canvas, 73 x 100 cm, lo. ri. sign. and dat. H. de Beauvoir 79, on the reverse titled as well as sign. and dat. again. - French paintress, sister of Simone de Beauvoir. B. was taught painting among others at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and at the Académie Colarossi. She was introduced to the circle of Jean-Paul Sartre and also met Picasso, Dalí and Cocteau. Since the 1950s she developed a colourful style with the surface divided in crystalline elements. Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Regensburg a. others. Lit.: AKL, Bénézit, K. Sagner (ed.): Die Malerin H. d. B., exh. cat. 2014.
Hélène de Beauvoir: Les Femmes Papillons
Hélène de Beauvoir (Paris 1910 - Paris 2001)
Les Femmes Papillons
Lot-No. 135
Oil/canvas, 73 x 100 cm, lo. ri. sign. and dat. H. de Beauvoir 79, on the reverse titled as well as sign. and dat. again. - French paintress, sister of Simone de Beauvoir. B. was taught painting among others at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and at the Académie Colarossi. She was introduced to the circle of Jean-Paul Sartre and also met Picasso, Dalí and Cocteau. Since the 1950s she developed a colourful style with the surface divided in crystalline elements. Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien), Paris (Centre Pompidou), Regensburg a. others. Lit.: AKL, Bénézit, K. Sagner (ed.): Die Malerin H. d. B., exh. cat. 2014.