Hélène Oettingen

Helen Oettingen ( 1887 Ukraine or Venice - 1950 Paris) was a French painter and writer.

boulevard Berthier in Paris circa 1910

She is also known as a poet under the pseudonym Leonardo Pieu, as a novelist under the pseudonym Roch Grey, and as a painter under the pseudonym François Angiboult.[1]

She studied at the Académie Julian. In the 1910s, she held a literary salon, at 229 Boulevard Raspail . She helped save Les Soirées de Paris, with Serge Férat.[2] She met Ardengo Soffici.[3] and De Chirico.[4] She lived at La Ruche.

Her work was exhibited at the Pushkin Museum.[5]

Works
  • Le Château de l'étang rouge, Roch Grey, illuminated with wood engraved by Survage.
  • « L'Homme, la ville, le voyage » a text published in the magazine SIC.
  • Chevaux de minuit, thirteen poems illustrated by Picasso in 1936 and published by Iliazd.[6]
  • Roch Grey,Le Château de l’Étang rouge, Les Trois lacs, L’Âge de fer, Billet circulaire ,Foreword by Isabel Violante, Paris, Conti, 2010.
  • Roch Grey, Photographies verbales : Écrits sur l’art et les artistes (1913-1956),Introduction by Isabel Violante, Paris, Le Minotaure, 2016, 128 pp. (ISBN 978-2-916775-31-9)

Further reading
  • Hélène d'Ottingen, known as Roch Grey, Diary of a Stranger, introduction and ed. by Barbara Meazzi
  • Serge Férat, Letters to Hélène d'Oettingen, translated from Russian, presented and annotated by Régis Gayraud, Paris, Le Minotaure, 2016, 111 p. (ISBN 978-2-916775-33-3)
  • Ardengo Soffici, Serge Férat, Hélène d'Ogttingen, Correspondence 1903-1964, editions established by Barbara Meazzi, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 2013.

References
  1. "Hélène Oettingen". themawgallery.
  2. Melikian, Souren (2010-10-29). "Unmasking a Near Master of Modern Art (Published 2010)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  3. "Nom : Œttingen. Prénom : Hélène. Profession : Mécène". Connaissance des Arts (in French). 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. "De Chirico in punta di penna e di pennello". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  5. "A Capital of Culture". The Moscow Times. 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. Huffington, Arianna (1988-06-01). "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-01-05.


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