Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit

French painter

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1887

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1975

Profession: painter, art historian, printmaker, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (French: [benezi]; 28 November 1887, in Paris – 17 October 1975, in Hyères) was a painter and art curator.
He has been painting since the age of six, alongside Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley at home.
His grandfather, Charles Bénézit a musician, was a close friend of Victor Hugo that he accompanied in exile in Jersey ; He was the son of Dr.
Emmanuel Bénézit who as a child was jumping on the knees of the poet, has a gallery in Paris ; The art gallery owner and founder of the Bénézit Dictionary of Artists.His wife is Marie Salomé Sphener-Bénézit. After return from the army on medical grounds in 1915 he left for Provence to cure a pulmonary infection.
He lived at Gassin in the Var, then Bormes-les-Mimosas.
In 1930 he left Bormes for Hyères where he lived till his death at the age of 88.