Born in France, Georgette Rondel studied painting in Paris. She worked for a time as a commercial artist before moving to London in the mid- 1930s, where she met fellow White Stag painter Nick Nicholls. At that time she began to paint seriously. Her early pictures are mainly abstract, but in about 1939-40 she adopted a more representational style, her subject matter being landscapes, flower paintings and the occasional nude.
She left Ireland and returned to London in late 1941, taking a fla
t at 7 Devonshire Close, W1, but she died after an illness early the following year. ‘I think of Zette. Zette who is now dead … the sunshine passing into cloud—a lovely flower’, Basil Rakoczi noted in his Journal on 31 May 1942.
Further information on Rondel and the White Stag Group can be found here.
Rondel's work also featured in 'A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2011).
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