Jean-Gabriel Domergue
{{Short description|French painter (1889–1962)}}
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| death_place = Paris, France
| education = École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
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| known_for = Portraits of Parisian women
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889{{cite web|url=http://www.domergue-paintings.com/artiste/index.php?langue=US |title=Jean-Gabriel Domergue: A brief biography and archive of paintings |publisher=Galerie Pierre & Pierre-Edouard de Souzy |accessdate=2012-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320154254/http://www.domergue-paintings.com/artiste/index.php?langue=US |archivedate=2012-03-20 }} – 16 November 1962{{cite news | url = https://newspaperarchive.com/the-bee/1962-11-17/page-10/ | work = The Bee | date = 17 November 1962 | page = 10 | title = NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2023 | NewspaperArchive }}) 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. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits,{{cite web | url=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 | title=Jean-Gabriel Domergue – his works }} and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} 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
See also
- Villa Domergue
- {{ill|René Domergue|fr}}
- Gazette du Bon Ton
References
- {{cite book |title=Jean-Gabriel Domergue, l'art et la mode |isbn=285889034X |first=Gerard-Louis |last=Soyer |publisher=Editions Sous le vent |year=1984 |language=French}}
External links
- [http://www.jean-gabriel-domergue-archives.com/index.php Jean Gabriel Domergue 's archives]
- [http://gabrieldomergue.com/laparisienne.html Images from "La Parisienne, 1955"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002225618/http://gabrieldomergue.com/laparisienne.html |date=2013-10-02 }}
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Category:20th-century French painters
Category:20th-century French male artists
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Category:Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
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