Eyre de Lanux
Eyre de Lanux | |
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Born | Elizabeth Eyre March 20, 1894 Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
Died | September 8, 1996 New York, New York | (aged 102)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Design |
Movement | Art Deco |
Spouse |
Pierre Combret de Lanux
(m. 1918) |
Partner | Natalie Barney |
Eyre de Lanux (
Early life, education and fine art
She was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the eldest daughter of Richard Derby Eyre (1869-1955) and Elizabeth Krieger Eyre (d. 1938).[2] She studied art at the Art Students League in Manhattan with Edwin Dickinson, George Bridgman, Robert Henri, and Charles Hawthorne.[3]
De Lanux exhibited two paintings, L'Arlesienne and Allegro in the first annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917.[3]
In 1918 she met and married, French writer and diplomat, Pierre Combret de Lanux (1887–1955) in New York.[3] After the end of World War I they moved to Paris.[4] She studied in Paris in the early 1920s at Académie Colarossi and Académie Ranson where her teachers included Maurice Denis, Demetrios Galanis, and Constantin Brâncuși.[3][5] Their daughter, Anne-Françoise, nicknamed "Bikou," was born December 19, 1925.
In 1943, de Lanux was included in
Personal relationships
When the newly married couple settled in Paris their social circle included
Due in part to Jean Chalon's early biography of Barney, published in English as Portrait of a Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney, she has become more widely known for her many relationships than for her writing or her salon.[9]
Design
Her designs first came into notice during the early 1920s, and were often exhibited with those of designers
In her later years she wrote and illustrated a number of children's books. She died at the age of 102, at the Dewitt Nursing Home in Manhattan.
References
- ^ a b "Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ "Eyre de Lanux papers, 1865-1995 - biographical information". Archives of American Art. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- ^ Reif, Rita (10 September 1996). "Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux, 102, Art Deco Designer By". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ISBN 9780870707711.
- ^ Corinne, Tee A. (2002), "Subjects of the Visual Arts: Nude Females", glbtq.com, archived from the original on 2007-12-17, retrieved 2007-12-04
- ISBN 9791021008427.
- ^ "I would be asked at dinner parties what I was working on and, replying, 'Natalie Clifford Barney', I expected the usual post Jean Chalon response, 'What? The lesbian Don Juan?'" Livia (1992), pg. 181.