Georgette Tave
ARTIST: Georgette Tave (1925-2006) French
TITLE: “Summer On The French Riviera”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 107cm x 87cm framed
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL:
Georgette Tavé was born in 1920 in Elbeuf into a family of fabric traders. Her father was opposed to her vocation as a painter and it was only after her marriage that she could begin artistic training, first with Jean Souverbie, then with André Lhote.
From the first, she will remember the importance of the female body and its placement in the canvas. On the other, it will retain the cubizing fragmentation of colors and shapes.But it is by forgetting her masters that she manages to find herself. Installed in the old Modigliani workshop, she painted relentlessly and found her own style, bright and balanced. She took part in the Autumn shows and was a member of the Association of Painters and Engravers.
But it is her portrait of Coco Chanel that establishes her career. In 1966, Tavé painted two paintings of the famous Mademoiselle. Coco buys the most flattering. Tavé keeps the second, incisive, brutal and exhibits it. The success was immediate and Tavé then began exhibiting worldwide.
She became more famous in Japan than in France, more famous in Cannes than in Paris. Her painting, a vigorous figuration and strong colors seduces collectors and, if it is not recognized by the official Parisian critic, she goes from exhibition to exhibition all over the world.
In 1974, she turned again to the nude and then to the colors of the Mediterranean gardens.
She died in 2008 in her Parisian apartment.
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