Born in Paris 1911.
Lived and worked in New York where she passed away 2010.
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EDUCATION

1921-1927
Lycée Fénelon and Collège Sévigné

1932
Lycée Fénelon (received Baccalauréat after private study)

1932-35
Sorbonne

1934
Paul Colin

1936-1938
Atelier Roger Bissière dell’Académie Ranson
Académie of D’Espagnat
École du Louvre
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (studying with André Devambez)
Académie de la Grande-Chaumière, as an assistant or massière to Yves Brayer
École Municipale de Dessin & d'Art
Académie de la Grande-Chaumière, studying painting with Othon Friesz and sculpture with Robert Wlérick
Docent at the Musée du Louvre
Académie Julian
Académie Scandinavie with Charles Despiau
Studied with Fernand Léger
Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote

1938-1939
L’Académie Ranson
Vaclav Vytlacil

1946
Art Student’s League of New York


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1945
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY

1947
Norlyst Gallery, New York, NY

1949
Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1950
Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1953
Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1959
Andrew D. White Art Museum

1964
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY

1974
112 Greene St. Gallery, New York, NY

1978
Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1978-1979
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1983
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1982-84
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1983
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985
Maeght-Lelong, Paris, France
Traveled to Maeght-Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
Serpentine Gallery, London, England

1987
The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Traveled to The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis

1988
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1989
Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, NY
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1992
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Second Floor, Reykjavik, Iceland

1993
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1993-96
American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1996-98
Galerie Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Cheim & Read, New York
Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Galeri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden

1999-2000
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Tate Modern, London, England
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyunggi-Do, Korea
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

2001
Grafiska Sälskapet, Stockholm, Sweden
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
Tate Modern, London, England
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY

2002-03
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
White Cube, London, England
Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2004-05
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, London, England
Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden

2007-08
Tate Modern, London, England
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

British Museum, London, England
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Tate Modern, London, England
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Tuileries, Paris, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY