Érik Desmazières Explained

Birth Place:	Rabat, Morocco

Érik Desmazières (born 1948 in Rabat, Morocco) is a French engraver and printmaker.

Early life and education

Born in Morocco, he moved to Paris in 1967.^[1] He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and studied printmaking at the evening classes of the City of Paris.

Career

Desmazières received the Grand Prix of the City of Paris for engraving in 1978. He is president of the Société des peintres-graveurs français.

In 2008 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he was received in 2009^[2] and which he presided in 2016. In 2020 he was appointed director of Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.

Desmazières provided etched illustrations for The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges.

Exhibitions

Desmazières' work was exhibited at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam in 2004, at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris in 2006, at the Musée Jenisch^[3] in 2007, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts^[4] in 2009–2010, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France^[5] in 2012, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy^[6] in 2014.

Collections

Desmazières' work is included in major museums (Rijksmuseum,^[7] Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[8] MFA Boston^[9]) and private collections around the world.

Recognition

Desmazières is a knight of the Legion of Honour (2016), an officer of the national order of Merit, a knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.^[10]

Books

By Desmazières

• Book: Desmazières, Érik . 2006 . Paris à grands traits: Eaux-fortes et dessins . fr . Association Paris-Musées . 978-2879009834.
• Book: Desmazières, Érik . 2007 . Les lieux imaginaires . fr . Cinq Continents . 978-8874394029.
• Book: Desmazières, Érik . 2012 . Voyage au centre de la bibliothèque . fr . Hazan . 978-2754106627.
• Book: Desmazières, Érik . 2019 . Dans l'atelier . fr . Cinq Continents . 978-8874398577.

Contributions by Desmazières

• Book: Rolin . Olivier . Desmazières . Érik . 2006 . Une invitation au voyage . fr . BnF . 978-2717723731 .
• Book: Mauriès . Patrick . Desmazières . Érik . 2012 . Le Miroir des vanités . fr . éditions du Regard . 978-2841052998 .
• Book: Rolin . Olivier . Desmazières . Érik . 2015 . À y regarder de près . fr . Seuil . 978-2021282832 .

External links

• Érik Desmazières  - La Bibliothèque de Babel at Warnock.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Érik Desmazières . 2023-09-24 . MBAL . fr-FR.
2. Web site: Académies . Canal . 2009-10-18 . L’artiste graveur Erik Desmazières reçu sous la Coupole . 2023-09-24 . Canal Académies . fr.
3. Web site: Erik Desmazieres' Imaginary Places Prints And Drawings - Art Aujourd'hui . 2023-09-24 . www.artaujourdhui.info.
4. Web site: Paré . Isabelle . 2009-09-10 . Inauguration du nouveau Centre des arts graphiques au MBAM - Plongeon au coeur du monde fantastique de Desmazières . 2023-09-24 . Le Devoir . fr.
5. Lauren Laz, « Érik Desmazières à la nationale », Nouvelles de l’estampe [En ligne], 247 | 2014, mis en ligne le 15 octobre 2019, consulté le 24 septembre 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/estampe/750 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/estampe.750
6. Web site: 2014-09-17 . Erik Desmazières : le monde en clair et en grave . 2023-09-24 . LEFIGARO . fr.
7. Web site: Wunderkammer II, Erik Desmazières, 1999 . 2023-09-24 . Rijksmuseum . en.
8. Web site: Results for "Erik Desmazières" . 2023-09-24 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . en.
9. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/489044/la-tentation-de-saintantoine-ii
10. Web site: 2008-04-09 . Érik Desmazières Academie des beaux-arts . 2023-09-24 . Érik Desmazières Academie des beaux-arts . fr.