- Suzy Solidor
Suzy Solidor (1900-1983) was a French singer and actress, appearing in films such as "La Garçonne".
Suzy Solidor was born on 18 December 1900 in the Pie district of Saint-Servan-sur-Mer in
Brittany ,France , under the name of Suzanne Louise Marie Marion. She was the daughter of Louise Marie Adeline Marion, a 28-year-old single mother. She died on 30 March 1983 inCagnes-sur-Mer and is buried in the town ofCagnes-sur-Mer , where she had lived. In 1907 she became Suzy Rocher when her mother married Eugène Prudent Rocher. She later changed her name to Suzy Solidor when she moved toParis in the late 1920’s, taking the name from a district ofSaint-Servan in which she had lived.Early in 1930 she became a popular singer and opened a chic nightclub called
La Vie parisienne . She was openlylesbian .citation |title=Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris |first=Tirza True |last=Latimer |year=2005 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=0813535956 |pages=105-135]One of the singer’s most famous publicity stunts was to become known as the “most painted woman in the world”. She posed for some of the greatest known artists of the day including
Pablo Picasso ,Georges Braque ,Raoul Dufy ,Marie Laurencin ,Francis Picabia andKees van Dongen . Her stipulation for sitting was that she would be given the paintings to hang in her club and by this time she had accumulated thirty-three portraits of herself. La Vie parisienne became one of the trendiest night spots in Paris.Solidor’s most famous portrait was done by
Tamara de Lempicka .Solidor met Tamara de Lempicka sometime in the early 1930s and Suzy asked the artist to paint her. Tamara agreed, but only if she could paint Solidor in the nude. Solidor agreed and the painting was finished in 1933.
During the occupation her nightclub was popular with German officers, and after the war she was convicted by the
Épuration légale as a collaborator.References
External links
* [http://www.dfg.passau.de/Bilder/Cagnes/solidor.jpgGallery of Suzy Solidor Portraits]
* [http://www.paloma.ca/suzy.html 1933 portrait] byTamara de Lempicka
* [http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/mon_weblog/2005/03/31_mars_1983mor.html 30 mars 1983/Mort de la chanteuse Suzy Solidor] fr icon
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