Gilles Néret (1933 – 3 August 2005) was a French art historian and publisher.

Early life

Born in 1933, he went to London in 1951 where he worked as a journalist for

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for three years.

Career

On his return to France, he worked for the magazine ''Constellation'' before going to Japan where he organized retrospectives on

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and Salvador Dalí before founding the Seibu museum and the Wildenstein gallery of Tokyo. He published numerous works on the painting of Monet, Manet and Velasquez and published works on Dalí in collaboration with

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. Many of them are published by Taschen. He was awarded the in 1981 for the collection of art books at the

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, which he directed at Éditions de Vergeures.

Selected publications

*''Klimt''. Taschen, Köln, 2000. * ''Salvador Dalí: The Paintings''. Taschen, Köln. * ''Matisse''. Taschen, Köln. * ''Erotica Universalis''. Taschen, Köln.

References

French art historians French publishers (people) 1933 births 2005 deaths 20th-century French journalists {{France-historian-stub