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Jean-Gabriel Domergue

Biography of Jean-Gabriel Domergue ( 1889-1962 )

Jean-Gabriel Domergue was born in Bordeaux in 1889. His father, a journalist and art critic, took him to visit artists’ studios, which quickly revealed his attraction to painting. Shortly after arriving in Paris, at the age of fourteen Jean-Gabriel Domergue won first prize in a municipal drawing competition and received his first commission, a portrait of a woman. Starting in 1906 he went to several studios. Jean-Gabriel Domergue spent time with Toulouse-Lautrec, a distant cousin, in his studio, and with him discovered the Moulin Rouge and its dancers. Domergue borrowed and then shared a studio above the studio of Degas, on rue Massé. Despite a cold welcome at first, Degas befriended him and for more than a year taught him how to look, and to see. Domergue also met Boldini, whose fiery and distant touch would particularly influence him. Starting in 1920, the year of his gold medal at the Salon of French Artists, his work was extremely popular. Jean-Gabriel Domergue was sought out by advertisers for catalog co

Jean-Gabriel Domergue

French painter (1889–1962)

Jean-Gabriel Domergue

Domergue, c. 1929

Born(1889-03-04)March 4, 1889

Bordeaux, France

DiedNovember 16, 1962(1962-11-16) (aged 73)

Paris, France

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

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

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Jean-Gabriel Domergue is the grand-cousin of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His brother, René Domergue, became a short-story writer, art critic and editor at La Liberté and L'Écho de Paris.

He attended the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux, then the Lycée Rollin in Paris. Passionate about drawing, he entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he studied with Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert and François Flameng.

He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906, winning an honorable mention in 1908, a 3rd class medal in 1912 and a gold medal in 1920, the year in which he entered the “hors-concours” category.

He won a second Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1913.

In 1938, he created a composition featuring a nude young woman for the campaign of the new perfume Féerie de Rigaud, and that same year, he was also a member of the jury for the Miss France election.

He created the famous poster for the first edition of the Cannes Film Festival, showing a woman applauding, her back bare, her hair luxuriant, alongside a

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