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 Agence France-Presse 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

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before founding the Seibu museum and the Wildenstein gallery of Tokyo. He published numerous works on the painting of

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and Velasquez and published works on Dalí in collaboration with

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. Many of them are published by

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. 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