Jean-Gabriel Domergue Explained

Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Birth Date:4 March 1889
Birth Place:Bordeaux, France
Death Place: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

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". 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

Jury

Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.[4]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Jean-Gabriel Domergue: A brief biography and archive of paintings . Galerie Pierre & Pierre-Edouard de Souzy . 2012-04-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320154254/http://www.domergue-paintings.com/artiste/index.php?langue=US . 2012-03-20 .
  2. News: NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2023 | NewspaperArchive . . 17 November 1962 . 10 .
  3. 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
  4. Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938, 7 decembre 2014

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