Georgette Chadourne

Georgette Chadourne, née Georgette Juliette Louise Floriet, was a French surrealist photographer.

Life

Born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Blanche Floriet and Siegismund Porgès, Chadourne is the niece of Jules Porgès, Jane Margyl and Georgette Sandry.
She married Jean Puiforcat in 1922, then the Dadaist Paul Chadourne in 1929. Thanks to her connections with the Surrealists, she was able to photograph the great artists Matisse, Helleu, Picasso, Christian Bérard., Nicolas de Staël.
Chadourne died in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 84.
Chadourne had one daughter, Claude Blanche Puiforcat, who moved to the United States in 1946.