Jean gabriel domergue biography

          Jean-Gabriel Domergue was born in Bordeaux, France on March 4th, An extremely talented and precocious painter, Domergue exhibited works at the Salon.

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        3. Jean-Gabriel Domergue was born in Bordeaux in His father, a journalist and art critic, took him to visit artists' studios, which quickly revealed his.
        4. Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a French painter often described as “the inventor of the pin-up” for his wide-eyed, slender-necked portraits of Parisian women.

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          Jean-Gabriel Domergue

          French painter (1889–1962)

          Jean-Gabriel Domergue

          Domergue with Cécile Sorel in 1933

          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