ÉCOLE DU XIXe SIÈCLE dans le goût de Gustave COURBET

The Wave Oil on canvas, signed apocryphonically on the lower right. 27 x 41 cm. Important restorations. PROVENANCE. . Collection F., Paris Arlette MOCH - DAVID Born in 1926, Arlette MOCH (pronounced "mok") is the youngest of her siblings. Her closest sister being 10 years older than her, she lives a solitary childhood, where she tries drawing, modelling and creating manual works in paper. The Second World War was a long flight into hiding, as her family refused to wear the yellow star. She practised her graphic skills by forging identity papers to hide the real identities of her family members. After the war, and once she had obtained her baccalaureate in literature in 1945, she attended Jean Souverbie's classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she met personalities such as André Lhote and Mime Marceau. She then enrolled at the young Camondo school in 1947 (Francis Jourdain class) where she obtained her diploma as an architect-decorator in 1949. She then became involved with her husband in militancy, against the Algerian war for example. In 1968, she started a divorce procedure (she was then the mother of three children) and, bulimic of knowledge, she resumed her studies at the University of Vincennes where she obtained a degree in psychology, a degree in education sciences and finally a degree in plastic arts. She finally decided to study psychology with a master's degree in psychology, followed by a post-graduate diploma in clinical psychology in Paris VII, a profession she carried out until her retirement in several institutions (dispensaries, psychiatric hospital). At the same time, she was involved in various human causes (feminism, reception of undocumented migrants, war in Bosnia). In 2002, she wrote a very beautiful text for Jean-Pierre GUÉNO's collection, Paroles d'étoiles, mémoires d'enfants cachés, 1939-1945, in which she evokes her own memories of the Occupation.