Rosamond Bernier (1916–2016)
Author of Matisse, Picasso, Miro--as I Knew Them
About the Author
Rosamond Bernier was born Rosamond Margaret Rosenbaum in Germantown, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1916. She was educated by French governesses and spent a few years at an English boarding school before attending Sarah Lawrence College. She dropped out at the age of 19 to marry Lewis A. Riley Jr., a show more wealthy land developer she met on a trip to Mexico. They divorced in 1943. In 1946, she became Vogue's Paris-based European features editor and worked for art magazines. Two years later she married Georges Bernier, a journalist. In 1955, they founded L'Oeil (The Eye), a bilingual monthly magazine. A subsidiary produced 16 art books under the Bernier imprint. After her second marriage ended, she moved to New York and eventually became a television personality and art lecturer. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she interviewed artists and narrated documentaries on CBS and PBS. She won a Peabody Award for two programs on the Pompidou Center in Paris. In 1975 she married John Russell, the art critic of The New York Times. They collaborated on many writing and television projects. She wrote several books including Matisse, Picasso, Miro: As I Knew Them and Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir. She died on November 9, 2016 at the age of 100. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Rosamond Bernier
Miro I knew [videorecording] 2 copies
L'Oeil du Decorateur — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Rosenbaum, Rosamond Margaret "Peggy" (birth)
- Birthdate
- 1916
- Date of death
- 2016-11-09
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Occupations
- lecturer
magazine editor
journalist - Organizations
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vogue
L'OEIL (magazine) - Relationships
- Russell, John (spouse | 1975-2008)
Bernier, Georges (spouse | divorced) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
I only wish Rosamond Bernier had met 100 more artists that she could write such sensitive portraits of them and their art too. Deeply enjoyable peek into the lives and methods of these three painters. I particularly loved the section on Miró and feel it's improved my ability to "read" his paintings. Lovely.
This seemed very slight at first but the more I read, the more I enjoyed, especially the chapters about the artists she knew. I loved the chapter about visting Julia Morisot, Berthe Morisot's daughter in Paris. Very poignant. Plus, the last three chapters are taken from longer essays or exhibit catalogs and the writing is very fine indeed.
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Statistics
- Works
- 18
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 277
- Popularity
- #83,812
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10