Hélène Oettingen

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.

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. She met Ardengo Soffici. and De Chirico. She lived at La Ruche.

Her work was exhibited at the Pushkin Museum.

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.
 * 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)