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Geneviève Asse, born in Vannes, Britanny in 1923, is a French painter.

Early life
Her early childhood was spent with her grandmother on the Gulf of Morbihan. In 1931 she visited and was fascinated by the Paris Colonial Exposition and in 1932 she moved to Paris to live with her mother. She discovered the work of Robert Delaunay in 1937, visited museums in France, Belgium and the Netherlands and was attracted by the still lifes of Jean Siméon Chardin