Mrs Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune
Other names: Georgette L. Le Jeune (or Lejeune)
Born 23 May 1895 (Presumed)
Active: 1937 - 1948
Country of birth: France
Country of death: Switzerland
Sculptor
Her given name was Georgette L. Le Jeune (or Lejeune) but was later known as 'Ginette'. She was born and raised in Paris where she became a pupil of Jean-George Achard. Ginette afterwards studied in London with Charles Doman. In the summer of 1923 she married Henry R. Bingguely in Kensington, London. They were living in the Coulsdon and Purley area of South London in 1939. At this date Georgette was doing 'unpaid domestic duties' and Henry was described as an ARP warden at a shelter and a designer for manufactured 'electric clocks, instruments etc.'
Ginette exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Among her known works is a bronze bust of Lord Nuffield signed by the artist and dated 1937 in the collection of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1948 she received the Cross of Chevalier de la LeĢgion d'Honneur at a ceremony in Paris. An article in 'The Swiss Observer' dated 16 April 1948 marking this event provides further details of her career. The text is available online at https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=swo-001:1948:0::717 (accessed 13 June 2019).
This record includes information submitted by Dr. Barbara Pezzini and Hazel Buchan Cameron for ArtUK as well as some details from the 1950 edition of 'Who's who in Switzerland Including the Principality of Liechtenstein'.
Works
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Rudyard Kipling
1947
Evelyn
1948 (Circa)
Locations
Address Fox Close Stonely Huntingdon | View on map
1943 (Circa)
Address The Heath Fairlight | View on map
1948 (Circa)
p. 121
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Seventeenth, 1943
'Rudyard Kipling'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1948
'Evelyn'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1940 - 1948
Exhibited 7 times, nine works in all (mainly busts and portrait heads but also statuettes)
Sources
1939 England and Wales Register
2018
Name: Georgette Bingguely
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 23 May 1895
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 2a
Residence Place: Coulsdon and Purley, Surrey, England
Occupation: Unpaid Domestic Duties
Schedule Number: 21
Sub Schedule Number: 2
Enumeration District: CMKL
Registration district: 31/3
Inferred Spouse: Henry Bingguely
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1916-2005
2006
Name: Georgette L Le Jeune
Registration Date: Jul 1923
[Aug 1923]
[Sep 1923]
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Kensington
Inferred County: London
Spouse: Henry R Bingguely
Volume Number: 1a
Page Number: 464
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 25
Citing this record
'Mrs Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1203344058, accessed 02 Apr 2023]
