Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887 – Hyères, 1975) was a French painter and art curator. He was the son of Dr. Charles-Emmanuel Bénézit (1854-1920) the art gallery owner and founder of the Bénézit Dictionary.[1] His sister was Marguerite Bénézit.[2][3]

After return from the army on medical grounds in 1915 he left for Provence to cure a pulmonary infection. He lived at Gassin in the Var, then Bormes-les-Mimosas. In 1930 he left Bormes for Hyères where he lived till his death at the age of 88. His wife Salomé predeceased him in 1950.

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  1. ↑ Gazette des beaux-arts 1975- Page 35 "Emmanuel Benezit était le fils du Dr Charles-Emmanuel Benezit (1854- 1920), auteur du célèbre Dictionnaire des Peintres"
  2. ↑ James S. Patty Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime 2005 - "Emmanuel Bénézit (1854–1920) died before the appearance of the third volume of the first edition; even if Marguerite Bénézit was his daughter, it is difficult to "
  3. ↑ Painting E.C. Bénézit b: 1887 d: 1975 "Bénézit was born in Paris to a cultured and privileged milieu which included the likes of Victor Hugo, Vincent Van Gogh. His father owned an art gallery where the young child spent many hours, meeting some of the luminaries of the era and developed close ties to Pisarro and Sisley, who were frequent visitors to his childhood home. At the age of six he created his first signed works, and later collaborated with his father in the creation of the universally known “Bénézit Dictionary of Painters Sculptors, Designers and Engravers” first published in 1911 and still widely used today."

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