Gouze Simone (1889-1983) Portrait Of An Actress And Mask From Yunnan

SIMONE GOUZE (1889-1983)
Portrait of an actress and mask from Yunnan
Pastel
73 x 57.5 cm
Annotated in Kanji characters on the right

Simone GOUZE will be exhibited in the exhibition "Traveling Artists, The Call of the Faraway, 1880-1944" at the Palais Lumière in Evian from December 11, 2022 to May 21, 2023. Simone Gouzé is the first Western woman to explore the Lolo country in Yunnan in the heart of China. On the back of a local horse, and at a rate of 7 hours a day….

Exhibition: Salon of the Society of French Artists in 1945 First Western woman to explore the Lolo country in Yunnan in the heart of southwest China. She organized her first exhibition in Saigon upon returning from these expeditions. Her work shows a great interest in the faces of mothers and their children, of whom she knows how to make her allies.