| 1. | Gertrude-Micheline (Michel) Agelasto was born on 12 Jan 1907 in rue Daguerre 92, Paris 14ème, Île-de-France, France; died on 23 May 1988 in Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland. Notes:
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The natural daughter of Michel Agelasto and Gertrude Mildé. After her father's death 1915, she and her mother were forced to leave France for Geneva due to her mother's German nationality. WW I had interrupted Michel's plans to marry Gertrude; after his death his friend Paul Rodocanachi arranged a sort of annuity, approved by French President Raymond Poincaré, a friend of Michel, who had authorized an exemption to permit their marriage. Michel Demosthene Agelasto's paternity is annotated on her birth certificate, 11 Aug 1914, and this was formally accepted by the mother, 26 Mar 1915, at the city hall, Monléon-Magnoac, Hautes-Pyrénées.
Her portrait was drawn by her art tutor, Henri Matisse, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris, late November or December 1914. Charcoal on paper 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.), signed l.r.: Henri-Matisse. Plate 30 in Portraits par Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse, ed., André Sauret, pub., Paris, 1954). Printing limited to 2,850 copies, numbered 1 to 2,850, of which 500 were printed in English, numbered 1,501 to 2,000. Printing of the English edition was completed 1 Feb 1955.
Residence: 81 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris; 1915- Geneva; -1929, Paris; 1930, Australia; 1944- Freidorf, Switzerland.
Education: Sorbonne, Paris.
She exhibited at the Lyceum Club, Sydney, Australia, 4 Apr 1930 (The Sydney Mail, 19 Mar 1930, p. 30).
Gertrude Barbier of Basil exhibited a watercolor "The Window" at the 38th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 7 Sep 1944, p. 6). She exhibited a 'portrait rapidly removed' at the 39th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 19 Sep 1946, p. 6).
Artist. Name is on artprice.com website, Dec 2009.
Birth:
She was born in the domicile of the mid-wife.
Gertrude-Micheline married Charles Henri (Francis) Barbier on 20 Mar 1929 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Charles (son of Francis Barbier and Milka Frank) was born on 29 Aug 1902 in Chaux de Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; died on 16 May 1984 in Basel/Bâle, Switzerland; was buried on 21 May 1984 in Basel/Bâle, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1907 - 1988 (81 years)