Yvonne Canu was a French painter, considered part of Neo-Impressionism, who used the technique of Pointillism in her work.. She was born of French parents in Meknes, Morocco in 1921 and studied at the School of Fine Art in Paris. The future pointillist met with such artists as Elisse Maclet and Tsuguharu Foujita who introduced her to landscape painting and the principles of Impressionism. She later attended the Academie de la Grand Chaumier alongside Ossip Zadkine. Yvonne began to present her works after the Second World War, but it was only in 1955 that she finally came to Neo-impressionism after seeing major works by Georges Seurat.