Genevieve Beatrice White was born December 19, 1913,[3] in Sandpoint, Idaho and she was raised in Troy, Montana.

[2] Pezet started painting while studying philosophy at Columbia University.

[2] In 1947, she moved to Paris and she studied painting with André Lhote at the André Lhote Academy and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine in 1956 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

[2][4] In 1948, she married Jacques Pezet at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris.

[5] In 1954, she participated in the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture at Musée Rodin.