Yvonne Jammet
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1900
Yvonne Jammet | |
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| Born | Yvonne Auger 1900 Paris, France |
| Died | August 30, 1967 (aged 66–67) Lowell, Massachusetts, United States |
Resting place | Deans Grange Cemetery, Blackrock |
| Movement | avant-garde and modernism |
| Spouse | Louis Jammet |
Yvonne Jammet (1900 – 30 August 1967) was a French landscape painter and sculptor, who spent her career in Ireland.[1] With her husband, Louis Jammet, she ran the well-known Dublin-based French restaurant, Restaurant Jammet.[2]
Yvonne Jammet was born Yvonne Auger in 1900, in Paris. Her parents were Félix Auger and Catherine (née Jammet), who were both restaurateurs. She studied art at the Académie Julian and the Atelier Jean-Paul Laurens. She married her third cousin, Louis Jammet, with whom she moved to Dublin in 1928 to take over running of his father's restaurant on Nassau Street. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Jammet died whilst visiting the United States in Lowell, Massachusetts, on 30 August 1967. She is buried at Deans Grange Cemetery, Blackrock.[3]
