Gerda Sutton

Gerda Sutton is a painter born in 1923 in Great Britain and died in Paris in 2005. After scientific studies, she began to work in atomic research, first in Montreal (Canada), then in Harwell (Great Britain) ). In 1955, she broke with this activity and moved to France, where she devoted herself entirely to painting. She entered the André Lhote Academy (1885-1962), where she rubbed shoulders with artists such as William Klein and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Passing through periods of intense research (his interest in Otto Dix strongly influenced his portraits and Pop Art significantly changed his painting from the seventies) his work testifies to an authentic wealth of artistic inspiration and a openness to the most innovative currents of painting of its time. In a sense, she is emblematic of painting from the second half of the 20th century. His paintings, sold at the Salle Drouot (Paris) during a “workshop sale” in January 2006, were bought mainly by collectors and galleries, but also by enthusiasts who came especially from England and the United States. United . Gerda Sutton, although participating in a few groups of artists, was a solitary, independent woman, refusing all her life to be represented by a gallery (despite many proposals), fleeing interviews, giving her paintings rather than selling them and destroying those he did not like.