Jean-Gabriel Domergue

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, 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.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jean-Gabriel Domergue: A brief biography and archive of paintings". Galerie Pierre & Pierre-Edouard de Souzy. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
  2. 1 2 3 The Bee. 17 November 1962. p. 10 http://newspaperarchive.com/the-bee/1962-11-17/page-10/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ (French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938, 7 decembre 2014


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