Helen Oettingen (1887, Ukraine or Venice - 1950, Paris) was a French painter and writer.

She is also known as a poet under the pseudonym Leonardo Pieu, as a novelist under the pseudonym Roch Grey, and as a painter under the pseudonym François Angiboult. ^[1]

She studied at the Académie Julian. In the 1910s, she held a literary salon, at 229 Boulevard Raspail . She helped save Les Soirées de Paris, with Serge Férat. ^[2] She met Ardengo Soffici. ^[3] and De Chirico. ^[4] She lived at La Ruche.

Her work was exhibited at the Pushkin Museum. ^[5]

Works

• Le Château de l'étang rouge, Roch Grey, illuminated with wood engraved by Survage.
• « L'Homme, la ville, le voyage » a text published in the magazine SIC.
• Chevaux de minuit, thirteen poems illustrated by Picasso in 1936 and published by Iliazd. ^[6]
• Roch Grey,Le Château de l’Étang rouge, Les Trois lacs, L’Âge de fer, Billet circulaire ,Foreword by Isabel Violante, Paris, Conti, 2010.
• Roch Grey, Photographies verbales : Écrits sur l’art et les artistes (1913-1956),Introduction by Isabel Violante, Paris, Le Minotaure, 2016, 128 pp. ( ISBN  978-2-916775-31-9)

Further reading

• Hélène d'Ottingen, known as Roch Grey, Diary of a Stranger, introduction and ed. by Barbara Meazzi
• Serge Férat, Letters to Hélène d'Oettingen, translated from Russian, presented and annotated by Régis Gayraud, Paris, Le Minotaure, 2016, 111 p. ( ISBN  978-2-916775-33-3)
• Ardengo Soffici, Serge Férat, Hélène d'Ogttingen, Correspondence 1903-1964, editions established by Barbara Meazzi, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 2013.

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