Jean-Gabriel Domergue

{{Short description|French painter (1889–1962)}}

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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

  • Knight of the Legion of Honour
  • Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jury

Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.{{in lang|fr}} Fabricio Cardenas, [http://vieuxpapierspo.blogspot.fr/2014/12/miss-pyrenees-orientales-elue-miss.html Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938], 7 decembre 2014

See also

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}}