Cannu Yvonne 

Yvonne Canu was a French painter associated with the Neo-Impressionist movement, known for her use of the Pointillism technique. Born in 1921 in Meknes, Morocco, to French parents, she began her artistic studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, but these were interrupted by the Second World War. Fascinated by landscape painting, she met artists such as Élisée Maclet and Tsuguharu Foujita, who introduced her to the principles of Impressionism. She then continued her training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she notably studied under Ossip Zadkine.

Yvonne Canu began exhibiting her work after the war, but it was only in 1955 that she definitively embraced Neo-Impressionism. This decisive turning point was inspired by Georges Seurat's painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, an emblematic figure of the movement. From then on, Canu devoted herself fully to exploring pointillism, which she practiced for most of her career, until her death in 2008.