- Alice Bailly
Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretation of
cubism and her multimedia wool paintings.Education and early career
Bailly was born in
Geneva, Switzerland , where she attended separate classes for women at theEcole des Beaux-Arts , studying underHugues Bovy andDenise Sarkiss . She also went on to study inMunich, Germany . By 1906 she had moved toParis , where she befriended a number of notable modernist painters such asJuan Gris ,Francis Picabia ,Albert Gleizes ,Jean Metzinger ,Fernand Léger ,Sonia Lewitska andMarie Laurencin .Fauvism and Cubism
While in Paris she became interested in
Fauvism , and showed some paintings in the style at theSalon d'Automne alongside principal painters of the movement.Wool paintings
At the beginning of
World War I , Bailly returned to Switzerland and invented her signature "tableaux-laine" or "wool paintings" in which short strands of colored yarn acted as brush strokes. Between 1913 and 1922 she made approximately fifty paintings in this style. She was also briefly involved with theDada movement.Later life
She moved to
Lausanne in 1923 and remained there for the rest of her life. She was commissioned to paint eight large murals for the foyer of the Theatre of Lausanne in 1936. This task led to exhaustion which may have contributed to thetuberculosis that caused her death in 1938. Her will directed that the proceeds from the sale of her art be used to establish a trust fund to aid young Swiss artists.External links
* [http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=1034 Alice Bailly on National Museum of Women in the Arts]
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