Dimensions: 32.5 x 22 cm
signed p.d.: 'Ronget'
described on the reverse: 'RONGET | "Les libellules"', on the reverse paper stickers of Société Nouvelle Atlantic and Salon des Indépendants and paper sticker numbered: '3952'.
Origin
private collection, France
for auction Millon, France, January 2021
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1978
Biography
She studied in Vienna, Paris, London and Berlin. She was influenced by Cubism and the Der Blaue Reiter group. In 1926 she became a member of the avant-garde Berlin association November Gruppe. From 1931 she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, while simultaneously working as a respected interior decorator. From 1934, she exhibited at the Salon d'Automne with André Lhote. Her works were included in many collections in Europe. In 1941, after the Germans invaded Paris, she fled to Provence. In 1946, she exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, in 1953 at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, and in 1956 at the Salon des Surindépendants.