Oil On Canvas By Renée Beja 1905 - 1979 Pupil Of Fernand Léger Nude At Reading 1930-40

Oil On Canvas By RenĂ©e Beja 1905 - 1979 Nude Reading Circa 1930-40 dimensions 65 x 54 cm without frame Biography RenĂ©e BĂ©ja's father, Avram BĂ©ja (1863-1923), Jew from Thessaloniki, widower of Filor Rey with whom he has a son, Mathieu BĂ©ja, remarried Florence Dreyfus with whom he has two children, AndrĂ© (1902-1922) and RenĂ©e (1905-1979). RenĂ©e BĂ©ja was still a young child when the family moved to France, in SolliĂšs-Pont where her father worked as a miller, at the current location of CrĂ©dit Agricole. In the 1930s, RenĂ©e BĂ©ja was a pupil of Fernand LĂ©ger and she married RenĂ© Berco, a dental technician, to settle in the Paris region. Between 1935 and 1938, she exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, presenting mainly Views of PĂ©rigord, to also participate in 1938 at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des IndĂ©pendants. During the Second World War, Florence Beja-Dreyfus, RenĂ©e BĂ©ja and her husband RenĂ© Berco, Mathieu BĂ©ja and his wife Nadia, were saved while being hidden by EugĂšne ViĂšs, an SNCF executive in SolliĂšs-Pont, the industrialist Étienne Arnaud and the secretary of the town hall registering them under a false name in the register of inhabitants, in order to give them the right to provide tickets. However, descendants of the Gestapo forced the BĂ©ja family to leave SolliĂšs-Pont for Saint-Paul-Trois-ChĂąteaux, again with the help of EugĂšne ViĂšs and his wife Walda, to whom the Yad Vashem Institute has since awarded the title of righteous. Among the nations. Based at 41, rue Blomet in Paris, RenĂ©e BĂ©ja then also worked as a decorator for the theatre. She created the sets, costumes and masks for the play Les ChoĂ©phores by Aeschylus, performed in the large amphitheater of the Sorbonne in June 1949, then at the Palais des Papes as part of the Festival d'Avignon in July 1950. The works of RenĂ© BĂ©jĂ , including nudes, still lifes, intimate scenes, landscapes of Provence, Brittany and Paris, were then presented at the Salon du Gemmail in Tours, evoking, as with his colleague AndrĂ©e Bordeaux-Le Pecq, experiments post -cubist and abstract. , but also classifying him, along with Germaine Lacaze, Marguerite Bermond, GeneviĂšve Gavrel and Guillemette Morand, among the heirs of the painters of poetic reality. RenĂ©e BĂ©ja's workshop was dispersed at the HĂŽtel Drouot on March 26, 1996 by M es Pescheteau-Gadin, Godeau and Leroy, auctioneers in Paris. The Taylor Foundation has established an annual award named after RenĂ©e BĂ©ja. Group exhibitions Salon des Tuileries, 1935-1938. Salon d'Automne, 1938. Salon des IndĂ©pendants, 1938. etc...