Simone Boisecq

Simone Boisecq (April 7, 1922 - August 6, 2012) was a French sculptor who worked in Algiers and Paris.

[2] He was a liberal Catholic who worked as a military administrator and supported the cultural and national causes of the Bretons.

After the birth of Simone Boisecq the following year, she left her job in administration and resumed teaching piano.

[5] In 1929, Simone was presented with the gift of a Dogon sculpture from her father that had been purchased at the Chartres market.

Her early aesthetic influences were primitive art, the landscapes of Algeria and Brittany, and her admiration and friendships with surrealist poets and painters.

[6] As a young artist with a rising career in Paris, Boisecq established friendships with Brancusi, Picasso and Zadkine.

Studio of Simone Boisecq in 1998