Antoine de Margerie [SEP] place of death
Antoine de Margerie
Antoine de Margerie (17 November 1941 at Cussey, France – 9 February 2005 in Paris), was an abstract painter from a family of French diplomats.
Formation.
Following a childhood in Paris and the Auvergne, Antoine de Margerie lived with his parents in a number of diplomatic postings, in Madrid, Washington, Rome and Berlin. In 1953, he joined his grandfather André Lefebvre de La Boulaye, another diplomat, in Paris. At the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzaque,
he obtained his bacalaureat. Art is already part of his background because an uncle, Paul de Laboulaye (1902–1961) is a painter who encourages the adolescent Antoine in his interest. One of the artists whose paintings hang in the family apartments is Pierre Bonnard. Another family member, Paul-Antoine, known as Paul de la Boulaye (1849–1926), had also been a painter. Antoine de Margerie felt drawn to the vocation, causing his parents worry. In order to reassure them, de Margerie takes up medical studies,