Jean-Gabriel Domergue
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue | |
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_-_Agence_Meurisse.jpg) Domergue with Cécile Sorel in 1933 | |
| Born | March 4, 1889 Bordeaux, France |
| Died | November 16, 1962 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Education | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts |
| Known for | Portraits of Parisian women |
| Awards | Prix de Rome, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts |
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889[1] – 16 November 1962[2]) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
Biography
[edit]Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome.[2] From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits,[3] and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".[citation needed] He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others. Domergue was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He died 16 November 1962 on a Paris sidewalk.[2]
Awards
[edit]- Knight of the Legion of Honour[1]
- Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Jury
[edit]Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jean-Gabriel Domergue: A brief biography and archive of paintings". Galerie Pierre & Pierre-Edouard de Souzy. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
- ^ a b c "NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2023 | NewspaperArchive". The Bee. 17 November 1962. p. 10.
- ^ http://www.jean-gabriel-domergue-archives.com/en/archives-art-paintings/articles-archive/paintings-painter-jean-gabriel-domergue/93-jean-gabriel-domergue-paintings-works.html [bare URL]
- ^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938, 7 decembre 2014
- Soyer, Gerard-Louis (1984). Jean-Gabriel Domergue, l'art et la mode (in French). Editions Sous le vent. ISBN 285889034X.
External links
[edit]- Jean Gabriel Domergue 's archives
- Images from "La Parisienne, 1955" Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
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