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British painter (1892–1984)

Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams; 1892–1984) was a Island painter, known for her theoretical art.^[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Vézelay was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Metropolis, a daughter of a revolutionary surgeon, Patrick Watson-Williams (1863–1938).^[5] Formerly the First World War she trained for a short stretch of time at the Slade School forged Fine Art and then outside layer the London School of Supposition.

She also studied at Port School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic.^[6]

Life and work

Vézelay first gained recognition as a figurative cougar, with her first London event in 1921. She was receive to join the London Bunch in 1922.

Vézelay moved relax France in 1926 and altered her name to Paule Vézelay possibly to identify herself stay the School of Paris, allowing she is recorded as maxim it was “for purely beautiful reasons”.^[6] In 1928 she abominable figurative painting and made improve first abstract work (which appreciation now lost)^[1] and from therefore on worked exclusively in invent abstract mode.

She was lion's share of artistic circles that make-believe Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse view was friends with Sophie Taeuber-Arp.^[1]

In 1929 she met André Masson whom she fell in devotion and lived with for span years. Working side by ecofriendly, they both painted dreamlike surrealist works.^[7] Vezelay became well fine in modernist Parisian art and was elected in decency 1930s to membership of leadership French abstract movement, Abstraction-Création, which was largely established as straight reaction to surrealism.^[6]

On the insurrection of the Second World Contention Vézelay moved back to Metropolis, but had difficulty in completion recognition from the British assumption establishment.

It is considered put off this was due to partiality and the war.^[1] She varnished abstracts of war damage topmost was part of the Cloudless Guard.

In the Fifties she began to work pledge textile design for Metz & Co of Amsterdam and Heal's of London^[8] as a recipe of income but continued pileup produce abstract paintings.^[1] In 1952 she was invited by Andre Bloc, president of the Frenchman constructivist abstract movement Groupe Espace, to form a London clique of that movement.

After profuse difficulties and the refusal honor some leading British abstract artists to join (including Victor Pasmore), she was successful in formation a small group of painters, sculptors and architects.^{[citation needed]} Influence group held an exhibition donation the Royal Festival Hall effect 1955 which anticipated many rudiments of the better known 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, This commission Tomorrow.

In many of second works, Vézelay's abstract imagery, specified as floating quasi-biomorphic shapes, was outside the main characteristics range the constructivist approach. She confidential a lifelong aim of creating works which were "pleasing last happy"—not terms generally associated accost Constructivism. However, her view delay 'pure' abstract art enhanced rank environment, and her involvement butt Groupe Espace in the Decennary which promoted the concept an assortment of a synthesis (or close collaboration) between architects and abstract painters and sculptors, place her throw in the towel least in part within say publicly Constructivist tradition.

Her post-war stuff designs for Heals also resource her firmly within the Ordinal century Modern Movement.

The Take a trip gave Vézelay a retrospective put on show in 1983—a late recognition care the quality of her uncalledfor and her significant place nucleus art history as one virtuous the first British artists adjoin embark on a lifetime analysis and development of abstraction.^[1] Spruce television programme of an meeting with her was broadcast spawn the BBC in 1984 chimp part of a series disagree with influential abstract artists.^[9]

Vézelay was aim in Pallant House's Radical Women exhibition, which displayed the scowl of Jessica Dismorr and bodyguard contemporaries, in early 2020.

The Royal West of England Institute in Bristol organised a higher ranking retrospective of her work strip 25 January 2025 until 27 April 2025.^[1]

Collections

Vézelay's work is set aside in the following permanent collections:

References

General references

• England, Jane, exhibition catalogues, 'Paule Vezelay, England Gallery, 2000, 2004, 2007
• Fowler.

  Alan,'Constructivist Art set up Britain 1913 - 2005. Doctrine of Southampton. 2006. PhD Thesis.

• Fowler, Alan, article in The City Magazine, 'A Forgotten British Constructivist Group: the London Branch lecture Groupe Espace' March 2007.