Avant-garde Still Life With Irises By Agnès Nanquette (1923 - 1976), Pupil And Wife Of Bernard Buffet

The avant-garde still life with irises was executed ca. 1950s by Agnès Nanquette (1923 - 1976), listed French painter and novelist, wife and pupil of Bernard Buffet.

Agnès Nanquette was born in Fumay. His father, Jacques Nanquette was a brewer. On the maternal side, she is the granddaughter of Doctor Sojournt, a doctor whose notoriety was important in Revin and Fumay, and is the cousin of the actor Louis Jouvet. After a childhood, she moved to Paris where she began studying fine arts.
She meets Bernard Buffet, whom she married in Paris in 1948; But the divorce is pronounced in 1949. He will evoke the years spent in the company of Bernard Buffet in articles published in the Sensational press. She then pursued her career as a painter, and met with some success; She made numerous sets for plays, with the directors of the time. At the same time as her pictorial work, she embraced a literary career with the publication by Gallimard in 1959 of her first novel "I would like elsewhere", largely inspired by her youth and her love experiences; "From A to Z" in 1963 and in 1965, "Les Borgnes". It was far too early, in 1976, that she had to disappear, far from her native Ardennes, in Provence where she had found refuge.

Literature: biography online: http://www.ardenne-wallonne.fr/FR~De_notre_region_Agnes_Nanquette?PHPSESSID=e16640ac34a1d620e9cf4a5b0e25658a

Inscription: signed lower left.
Technique: oil on canvas. Luxury gallery setting.
Dimensions: unframed 38 x 54.8 cm, framed 52 x 67.5 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.