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Jean-Gabriel Domergue
French painter (1889–1962) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889[1] – 16 November 1962[2]) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
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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.[2] From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits,[3] and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".[citation needed] 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]
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Awards
- Knight of the Legion of Honour[1]
- Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Jury
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.[4]
See also
- Villa Domergue
- René Domergue
- Gazette du Bon Ton
References
External links
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