About Georgette Chadourne
Lived 1899 – 1983 (aged 84). Georgette Chadourne was a French photographer.
Georgette Chadourne, née Georgette Juliette Louise Floriet, (18 April 1899 – 28 April 1983) was a French surrealist photographer.
Life Born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Blanche Floriet and Siegismund Porgès (who recognized her in 1911), Chadourne is the niece of Jules Porgès, Jane Margyl and Georgette Sandry.
She married Jean Puiforcat in 1922, then the Dadaist Paul Chadourne in 1929. Thanks to her connections with the Surrealists, she was able to photograph the great artists Matisse, Helleu (who would make a pastel of her cousin Blanche Floriet), Picasso, Christian Bérard., Nicolas de Staël.
Chadourne died in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 84.
Chadourne had one daughter, Claude Blanche Puiforcat (6 March 1924 - ), who moved to the United States in 1946.
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French photographer
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Georgette Chadourne was born on 18 April 1899 in 17th arrondissement of Paris.
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Georgette Chadourne died on 28 April 1983 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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