Jean-Gabriel Domergue

French painter (1889–1962)

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Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Domergue with Cécile Sorel in 1933
Born	(1889-03-04)March 4, 1889 Bordeaux, France
Died	November 16, 1962(1962-11-16) (aged 73) Paris, France
Education	École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Portraits of Parisian women
Awards	Prix de Rome, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts

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,^[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]

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2023 | NewspaperArchive". The Bee. 17 November 1962. p. 10.
^ 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
^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938, 7 decembre 2014