Name Jean-Gabriel Domergue | ||
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Education Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts | ||
Art Celebrities At Work - M. Jean Gabriel Domergue (1932)
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
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- Art Celebrities At Work M Jean Gabriel Domergue 1932
- Exposition odette et jean gabriel domergue les f tes v nitiennes
- Biography
- Awards
- Jury
- References
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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. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, 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.
Awards
Jury
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.
References
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