Yolande, wife of Lucien Clergue, dies at 95

[Paul Hill]

Yolande Clergue passed away on 18 September at the age of 95. Alongside photographer Lucien Clergue, her husband of fifty years, she helped establish the Arles Festival in the 1970s when I took this photo of her with Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. 

 

But it was in 1983 that she alone created the wonderful foundation dedicated to the painter Vincent Van Gogh.

 

See: https://www.fondation-vincentvangogh-arles.org/en/home/

 

Photograph: © Paul Hill

[William Messer]

Thank you, Paul. Where/when was that photo taken? Was it July '76 in la Carmargue? If so, Lee Miller died just 12 months later, and Roland left the ICA he'd founded. La Fondation Vincent van Gogh remains Yolande's brilliant legacy for Arles.

 

[Paul Hill]

Yes it was Bill