Jean-Gabriel Domergue

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889[1] – 16 November 1962[2]) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.

Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Domergue with Cécile Sorel in 1933
Born(1889-03-04)March 4, 1889
Bordeaux
DiedNovember 16, 1962(1962-11-16) (aged 73)
Paris
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known forPortraits of Parisian women
AwardsPrix de Rome, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts

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
  • 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.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Jean-Gabriel Domergue: A brief biography and archive of paintings". Galerie Pierre & Pierre-Edouard de Souzy. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
  2. The Bee. 17 November 1962. p. 10 https://newspaperarchive.com/the-bee/1962-11-17/page-10/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938, 7 decembre 2014
  • Soyer, Gerard-Louis (1984). Jean-Gabriel Domergue, l'art et la mode (in French). Editions Sous le vent. ISBN 285889034X.


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