American art dealer, photographer, and gallery owner
Patricia Faure (April 8, 1928 – October 21, 2008) was an American art dealer, photographer, and gallery owner, based in Los Angeles.
Early life and education
Patricia Enk was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the youngest of three daughters. Her father died when she was very young; Patricia moved to California with her mother and sister in 1943.[1] She attended Hollywood High School, and volunteered at the Modern Institute of Art in Beverly Hills as a teenager.[2] As a young woman she lived in New York City for several years, studying at the New School for Social Research and working as a model for Ford Models.[3]
Career
During her time living in New York, Patricia Enk met and worked with many New York-based artists of the 1950s, including Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, Joseph Cornell, Francesco Scavullo.[3] She carried her familiarity with contemporary artists into the Los Angeles scene when she returned in 1955. She became involved with the Ferus Gallery group as a photographer.[4]
Of her work, Faure often insisted, "You can't sell art. It sells itself. All you can do is keep the place kind of tidy and get the information out. People come in. If they like it, they buy it."[23]
Personal life
Faure married twice. Her first husband was musician Philip Peyton. Her second was Conde Nast art director Jacques Faure, father of her daughter Zazu (b. 1965).[24] Both marriages ended in divorce.
Faure died October 21, 2008, age 80, at the Kingsley Manor retirement community in Hollywood.[25]