Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (; 28 November 1887, in
Paris
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– 17 October 1975, in
Hyères
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) was a painter and art curator. He has been painting since the age of six, alongside
Camille Pissarro
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and Alfred Sisley at home. His grandfather,
Charles Bénézit a musician, was a close friend of
Victor Hugo
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His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
that he accompanied in exile in
Jersey
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; He was the son of
Dr. Emmanuel Bénézit who as a child was jumping on the knees of the poet, has a gallery in Paris; The art gallery owner and founder of the
Bénézit Dictionary of Artists.
[Gazette des beaux-arts 1975- Page 35 "Emmanuel Benezit était le fils du Dr Charles-Emmanuel Benezit (1854- 1920), auteur du célèbre Dictionnaire des Peintres"]
His wife is
Marie Salomé Sphener-Bénézit.
After return from the army on medical grounds in 1915 he left for Provence to cure a pulmonary infection. He lived at
Gassin
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in the Var, then
Bormes-les-Mimosas. In 1930 he left Bormes for Hyères where he lived till his death at the age of 88.
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1887 births
1975 deaths
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