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| General info : | | Geneviève Asse (born 24 January 1923 in Vannes, France – died 11 August 2021 (aged 98)) was a French painter and one of the most notable abstract French painters of the post-war era.
Geneviève Asse grew up in the Gulf of Morbihan until she was eleven. Thereafter, she lived and worked between Paris and Ile aux Moines, where she had acquired a house in 1987.
Her first paintings date from 1942, when she was a student at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Starting with still lifes – Geneviève Asse was particularly influenced by the Chardin paintings in the Louvre – she then came to abstraction, in contact with André Lanskoy, Serge Poliakoff, Serge Charchoune, Nicolas de Staël, Geer and Bram van Velde.
Geneviève Asse is also an engraver. Her first engravings date back to the late 1950s and early 1960s, as does her meeting with Giorgio Morandi in 1961. Translating in images poems by Yves Bonnefoy or Silvia Baron Supervielle, texts by Samuel Beckett or Pierre Lecuire, she accompanied their books with her engravings. She was also a friend of Jean Leymarie.
Two of the main stylistic characteristics of her work are the use of the line and the use of blue. The characteristic shade of blue she created had been called "le bleu Asse".
She was awarded the Grand-Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. | |
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