Английская Википедия:Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune

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Bingguely-Lejeune in 1948 by Kay Vaughan[1]

Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune born Georgette Lejeune (1895-1969) was a French sculptor known for her portrait busts of notable individuals.

Biography

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Bust of Rudyard Kipling, National Portrait Gallery, London

Bingguely-Lejeune was born and raised in Paris and studied under Jean-George Achard there before studying in London with Charles Doman.[2] In 1923 she married Henry Bingguely at Kensington in London.[2] The couple spent World War II in London.[2] She was a life-long number of the Societe des Artistes Francais and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and at the Royal Academy in London.[2][3] She also exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and with the Royal Society of British Artists.[4] In 1948 Bingguely-Lejeune was awarded the Legion of Honour.[1]

Bingguely-Lejeune's portrait bust of Rudyard Kipling is in the National Portrait Gallery, London and Nuffield College in Oxford holds her 1937 bust of Lord Nuffield.[2] Other subjects included Haile Selassie and General de Gaulle.[1] Her portrait of General Henri Guisan is held by the Museum of Fine Art in Lausanne.[3]

She died at Corseaux in Switzerland.[3]

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