Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of

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ian women.

Biography

Domergue was born in

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and studied at the

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. In 1911, he was a winner of the

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. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the

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". He also designed clothes for the couturier

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. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the

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, organising exhibitions of the works of

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and others. Domergue was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He died 16 November 1962 on a

sidewalk.

Awards

* Knight of the Legion of Honour * Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jury

Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938. Fabricio Cardenas
Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, ''Miss Pyrénées-Orientales élue Miss France en 1938''
7 decembre 2014

References

External links

Jean Gabriel Domergue 's archives

1889 births 1962 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur École des Beaux-Arts alumni Members of the Académie des beaux-arts {{France-artist-stub

Biography

Awards

Jury

See also

References

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