Jeannine Guillou
Jeannine Guillou (17 May 1909 – 27 February 1946) was a French painter. She is known to be the first partner of Nicolas de Staël.
Jeannine Guillou
Jeannine Guillou · Œuvre appartenant au Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon · Public domain
- Name
- Jeannine Guillou
- Born
- 17 May 1909
- Birthplace
- Concarneau, France
- Died
- 27 February 1946
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Field
- Painting
- Spouse
- Olek Teslar
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
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• Name — Jeannine Guillou • Born — 17 May 1909 • Birthplace — Concarneau, France • Died — 27 February 1946 • Place of death — Paris, France • Field — Painting • Spouse — Olek Teslar • Partner — Nicolas de Staël
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Jeannine Guillou, a painter, was born on 17 May 1909 in Concarneau (Finistère) and died on 27 February 1946 in Paris. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Jeannine Guillou was born in Concarneau. Guillou began to paint in 1924, and in 1928, and married Olek Teslar, one of her teachers. In 1937, during a trip in Morocco she left him and became the partner of Nicolas de Staël, who she met in Morocco, and they remained together until her death from malnutrition and/or a therapeutic abortion.
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- 1.France Culture. Jeannine Guillou et Nicolas de Staël : la rencontre. 2012-01-17.
- 2.Ouest-France. Concarneau. Jeannine Guillou, par amour pour Nicolas de Staël. 2023-09-20.
- 3.www.ledelarge.fr. Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains.
- 4.Le Monde. A Antibes, Jeannine Guillou, l'autre de Staël. 2011-11-12.
- 5.lebruitdutemps.fr. Les Lettres Françaises - n° 120 - Le meilleur de moi-même. 2014-11-13.
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