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| Born | 26 June 1872 |
| Died | 20 November 1952 |
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Marguerite Burnat-Provins (June 26, 1872, Arras - November 20, 1952, Grasse) was a French and Swiss writer and painter.
Marguerite Burnat-Provins | |
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| Born | 26 June 1872 |
| Died | 20 November 1952 |
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Marguerite Burnat-Provins (June 26, 1872, Arras - November 20, 1952, Grasse) was a French and Swiss writer and painter.
Burnat-Provins was the oldest of seven children born in a middle class family. Her father encouraged her artistic talents and she left Arras for Paris in 1891 to study at a number of schools with art-focused curricula as École des Beaux-Arts did not admit women at the time. [1]
She moved from Paris to the Swiss village of Vevey when she married the Swiss architect Adolphe Burnat-Provins. Vevey became the setting of many of her early works. [2] She wrote constantly for a period of twenty years and then more sporadically later in life. During this time she was prolific watercolor painter; many of her works, along with poems and original editions of her books, were destroyed or stolen during World War I.
Her work was noted for its sensuality. Two of her books, Le Livre pour toi (1908) and Cantique d'été (1910), focused on the nude male body, using language that male poets had historically used to describe female nudes for centuries.
Suzanne Valadon was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim collected art in Europe and America between 1938 and 1946. She exhibited this collection as she built it. In 1949, she settled in Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the rest of her life. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, and is one of the most visited attractions in Venice.
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