Genevieve Pezet

Genevieve Pezet, born as Genevieve Beatrice White, and mononymously signed her work Genevieve^[1] (December 19, 1913 – January 23, 2009) was an American-born French artist, known for her paintings, ceramics, and sculptures.^[2] She was most active from around the 1940s until 2000.

Genevieve Pezet
Self-portrait
Born	Genevieve Beatrice White (1913-12-19)December 19, 1913 Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Died	January 23, 2009(2009-01-23) (aged 95) Pénestin, France
Known for	painting, sculpture, ceramics

Life

Genevieve Beatrice White was born December 19, 1913,^[3] in Sandpoint, Idaho and she was raised in Troy, Montana.^{[citation needed]} In 1928, she attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.^[2]

Pezet started painting while studying philosophy at Columbia University.^[1] She continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York, while teaching at the New York School of Interior Design.^[2] In 1947, she moved to Paris and she studied painting with André Lhote at the André Lhote Academy and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine in 1956 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.^[2][4] In 1948, she married Jacques Pezet at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris.^[5] Together they had two sons.^[5]

In 1954, she participated in the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture at Musée Rodin.^[6]

She died in Pénestin, Morbihan in France, on January 23, 2009.^{[citation needed]}