Annabelle d'Huart (born 1952 in Paris) is a French visual artist. D'Huart's work includes photography, painting, ceramics, jewelry, drawing, and sculpture.

Life

D'Huart was born in an established family in Paris. Her grandfather had been one of the creators of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She studied art and design at

École Camondo The École Camondo is a five-year private school of product design and interior architecture located in Paris, France, which was created in 1944 and was recognized by the French Ministry of Education in 1989. It is named after the Camondo family, ...

in Paris. She started her career as a photographer and was encouraged by

Ralph Gibson Ralph Gibson (born January 16, 1939) is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and su ...

to establish herself in New York City, where she befriended

Nicholas Vreeland Nicholas Vreeland, also known as Rato Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Thupten Lhundup, is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk who is the abbot of Rato Dratsang Monastery, a 10th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery reestablished in India. Vreeland is al ...

at the time when he was working with Richard Avedon. While in New York, she photographed celebrity artists including Richard Serra, Donald Judd,

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

, Ellsworth Kelly,

Brice Marden Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938) is an American artist generally described as Minimalist, although his work may be hard to categorize. He lives and works in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. Life ...

, Dan Flavin,

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced you ...

, and Frank Stella. She met Ricardo Bofill in the 1970s and in 1980 they had a son,

Pablo Bofill Pablo Bofill (born 1980 in Paris) is a French architecture firm executive. As of 2022, he is the co-head of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) in Barcelona, jointly with his half-brother Ricardo Emilio Bofill. Life Pablo Bofill is the ...

. She worked with

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is a architecture firm that was founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill, initially as Taller de Arquitectura ("Architecture Workshop" in Spanish). It is headquartered in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in ...

in the 1980s, participating in the firm's design work and writing about their projects and methodologies. She had the first show of her paintings in 1989, using

gouache Gouache (; ), body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache h ...

as her medium. She spent time in the 1990s in

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

where she had a workshop and had some of her work exhibited at the

Menara gardens The Menara Gardens ( ar, حدائق المنارة) are a historic public garden and orchard in Marrakech, Morocco. They were established in the 12th century (circa 1157) by the Almohad Caliphate ruler Abd al-Mu'min. Along with the Agdal Gardens ...

pavillon. She has created jewellery since 1991. In 2004 she had a solo show of her late-1970s photography at the

Paula Cooper Gallery The Paula Cooper Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, founded in 1968 by . History Predecessors Cooper ran her own space, the ''Paula Johnson Gallery'', from 1964 to 1966, where Walter De Maria launched his first solo show in New York. ...

in New York City. From 2007 to 2010 she was an artist-in-residence at Sèvres – Cité de la céramique, the premier center for ceramic art in France, where she created jewellery. She also created

tapestry Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike most woven textiles, where both the warp and the weft threads may ...

for the

Gobelins Manufactory The Gobelins Manufactory () is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France. It is located at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near Les Gobelins métro station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally established on the site as a medieval ...

Work

She has designed jewelry for

Karl Lagerfeld Karl Otto Lagerfeld (; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer. He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 ...

Chanel Chanel ( , ) is a French high-end luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. Chanel specializes in women's ready-to-wear, luxury goods, and accessories and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear. Chanel is ...

in 2000, and for

Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics. Yamamoto has won notable awards for ...

in 2007. Her ceramics have been inspired by past artists, such as

Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca (, also , ; – 12 October 1492), originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca i ...

and Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann in 2006. Her sculpture has used

terracotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based ceramic glaze, unglazed or glazed ceramic where the pottery firing, fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, a ...

, cedar wood and

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

. Her ceramic collection "Atlantide", designed for the '' Manufacture nationale de Sèvres'', is on display at the French National Ceramic Museum. Her ''Talisman'' necklace is in the collections of the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

, and her some of her jewellery creations have been on sale at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She is the author of several books: * ''Harems'', Paris: Hachette, 1980 * ''Ricardo Bofill, Les Espaces d'Abraxas: El Palacio, El Teatro, El Arco'', Paris: L’Equerre, 1981 * ''Ricardo Bofill – Taller de Arquitectura'', Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1985, and Paris: Le Moniteur, 1989 * ''Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam'' (with contributions from Carlos Basualdo, Richard A. Fletcher,

Emily Greenwood Emily Greenwood is Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She was formerly professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and John M. Musser Professor of Classics a ...

, Olena Chervonik, and Nicola Del Roscio), New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018

References

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