Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune born Georgette Lejeune (1895-1969) was a French sculptor known for her portrait busts of notable individuals.
Bingguely-Lejeune was born and raised in Paris and studied under Jean-George Achard there before studying in London with Charles Doman.[1] In 1923 she married Henry Bingguely at Kensington in London.[1] The couple spent World War II in London.[1] She was a life-long number of the Societe des Artistes Francais and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and at the Royal Academy in London.[1] [2] She also exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and with the Royal Society of British Artists.[3] In 1948 Bingguely-Lejeune was awarded the Legion of Honour.[4]
Bingguely-Lejeune's portrait bust of Rudyard Kipling is in the National Portrait Gallery, London and Nuffield College in Oxford holds her 1937 bust of Lord Nuffield.[1] Other subjects included Haile Selassie and General de Gaulle.[4] Her portrait of General Henri Guisan is held by the Museum of Fine Art in Lausanne.[2]
She died at Corseaux in Switzerland.[2]