Jeanne Socquet

Jeanne Socquet (24 November 1928 – 17 October 2024) was a French painter and mosaicist. She was a neo-expressionist who created a wide variety of mosaics.

Biography Born in Paris on 24 November 1928, Socquet was the oldest of four children. In 1945, she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress. At the age of 21, she left home and began her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and subsequently at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. and La folie peinte par Jeanne Socquet.

In 1972, she joined a group of women activists, La Spirale, founded by . The following year, she co-wrote a book titled La création étouffée with Suzanne Horer. The work acted as a feminist manifesto and a tribute to femininity in the realm of artwork. Throughout her career, her works were praised by the likes of Jacques Leenhardt, Marguerite Duras, and Armand Lanoux.

Socquet died on 17 October 2024, at the age of 95.

Illustrated works New-York balafres (2005)

Publications La création étouffée (1973) Son prochain comme soi-même (2014) Les Contes du Whisky délicieux sous la pluie (2015) L'enfance de Celestine (2016)