Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.[1][2][3]

Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems.[4]

In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan.[4]

He was the director of publication at Galerie Maeght,[2] which represented Joan Miró, a close friend. The gallery also represented Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky.[4] Giacometti and Bacon both painted his portrait.[4]

Dupin wrote Miró's biography, numerous monographs on the artist's work, and was empowered by Miró's family to be the sole authenticating authority of the artist's work; a role that made him much sought after by collectors.[5] In 1987, Dupin was the curator of a retrospective of Miró's work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the first such retrospective in New York since 1959.[6]

Jacques Dupin's poetry in English

Jacques Dupin's poetry in French

Jacques Dupin's essays on modern art

References

  1. Hugues Azèrad; Peter Collier (2010). Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology. Cambridge University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-521-71398-6. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 Kristjana Gunnars (2004). Stranger at the door: writers and the act of writing. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-88920-455-3. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  3. Caviglioli, David (2012-10-29). "La mort de Jacques Dupin" (in French). Le Nouvel Observateur. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Vitello, Paul (4 November 2012). "Jacques Dupin, Art Scholar and Poet, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  5. McGill, Douglas (14 January 1985). "EXPERT ON MIRO'S STYLE DETECTS FAKE ARTWORKS". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  6. Brenson, Michael (15 May 1987). "ART: MIRO REVISITED IN GUGGENHEIM SHOW". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

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