Georgette Agutte - The White and Green Hat

Georgette Agutte (17 May 1867 – 5 September 1922) was a French painter.

Biography

She was born in Paris. Her father was Jean Georges Agutte. In 1893 she joined

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's classes as a free pupil, and retained his teachings on the freedom of mind and independence.National Assembly biography
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and

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among others. Agutte was a non-conformist and the only woman to attend the

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. She was a member of the

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movement and a sculptor. Her studio was in

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. In 1888, she married the critic Paul Flat. After divorcing in 1894, she married socialist politician and art collector

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in 1897. From 1904 on, she exhibited at the

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and participated in the

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. After her husband's death from a

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, she wrote on a note: "''Voilà douze heures qu’il est parti. Je suis en retard''" (''He left 12 hours ago, I'm late'') and committed suicide with a handgun, dying in

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on 5 September 1922. Knowing the importance of their art collection, the conservator of the Musee de Grenoble, Andry-Farcy, made every effort to obtain it. The museum holds most of her works and presented a retrospective at the end of December 2003. A street is named after her in the

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, and a boulevard jointly for her and Sembat in

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Tapestry

She supplied several models to the Aubusson National School of Decorative Art. A mountain landscape woven by her exhibited at the

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in 1921. At the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts that held in Paris in 1925, the Aubusson National School of Decorative Art presented Georgette's fireplace screen with a bunch of marigolds and Aubusson tapestry that woven in 1923, as well as mounted on a wood on its stand at the Grand Palais.

Sculpture

Georgette Agutte sculpted the Monument to

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, inaugurated in 1925 in Roubaix.

Gallery

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References

External links

* https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/709 {{DEFAULTSORT:Agutte, Georgette 1867 births 1922 suicides Painters from Paris French women painters 19th-century French painters 20th-century French painters Painters who died by suicide 20th-century French women artists 19th-century French women artists Suicides by firearm in France 1922 deaths