Georgette Agutte artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Skating at St. Moritz

mpressionist Georgette Aguttes was a non-conformist painter and one of the first women to take classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Before that, she painted from 1893 in the studio of the symbolist Gustave Moreau, from whom she learned to go her own artistic path. There she meets Matisse and Georges Rouault and is influenced by Fauvism. Together with her husband Marcel Sembat, she divides her time between her studio in Bonnières, house in Paris and chalet in Chamonix and brings together a large collection of work by fellow painters Matisse, Derain, Rouault, Signac, De Vlaminck and Van Dongen. In 1923 the collection was donated to the Musée de Grenoble. The painter's oeuvre includes nudes, flower still lifes and especially mountain landscapes in bright, fauvist colors.