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11 Place des États-Unis, 75116 Paris, France
Villa Noailles, Montée de Noailles, 83400 Hyères, France
Montparnasse Cemetery, 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris, Francia
Marie-Laure
de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles (31 October 1902 – 29 January 1970) was a
French artist, regarded one of the 20th century's most daring and influential
patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with
Salvador Dalí, Balthus,
Jean Cocteau,
Ned Rorem,
Man Ray, Luis Buñuel,
Francis
Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo,
Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric
personality. She and her husband financed Ray's film Les Mystères du
Château de Dé (1929), Poulenc's Aubade (1929), Buñuel and Dalí's
film L'Âge d'Or (1930), and Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet
(1930).
She was born Marie-Laure Henriette Anne Bischoffsheim, on 31 October 1902,
the only child of Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné, a French aristocrat, and Maurice
Bischoffsheim, a Paris banker of German Jewish and American Quaker descent.
One of her 3x-great-grandfathers was the Marquis de Sade, and her maternal
grandmother, Laure de Sade, Countess de Chevigné, inspired at least one
character in Marcel
Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Her nephew, Philippe Lannes de
Montebello, was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
City. Her stepfather was the French playwright Francis de Croisset, and her
former sister-in-law, Jacqueline de Croisset, became the third wife of actor
Yul Brynner.
by Carl Van Vechten
In 1923, after a brief romance with the artist Jean Cocteau, Marie-Laure
Bischoffsheim married
Charles, Vicomte de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981). He was a
son of François Joseph Eugène Napoléon de Noailles and the grandson of
Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles. His older brother was the 6th Duc de
Mouchy, father of Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles, himself a cadet
of the French ducal house of Noailles. Together, the couple had two daughters:
- Laure Madeleine Thérèse Marie de Noailles, later known as Madame
Bertrand de La Haye Jousselin (1924–1979);
- Nathalie Valentine Marie de Noailles, who married Alessandro Perrone
(1927–2004).
Marie-Laure de Noailles and her husband moved to the fabled hôtel
particulier at 11 Place des États-Unis in Paris, which was built by her
grandfather, Bischoffsheim. Its interiors, which were redecorated in the 1920s
by French minimalist designer Jean-Michel Frank, vanished in the 1980s, due to
a subsequent owner's redecoration and remodeling. In 1936, she acquired
Wolfgang Paalen´s object Chaise envahie de Lierre in André Breton´s
Galerie Gradiva and decorated her bathroom with it. Today the interiors have
been renovated by Philippe Starck and house the Musée Baccarat and the
headquarters of Baccarat, the crystal company.
In the 1920s, the Noailles built the Villa Noailles near Hyères. She had an
affair with the young
Igor
Markevitch. In the 1950s she had a long-term affair with the surrealist
painter Óscar Domínguez.
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