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Jean-Gabriel
Domergue

1889−1962
Jean-Gabriel Domers (Jean-Gabriel Domergue1889 years 1962) was a French artist who considered himself the Creator of the needle, so Gabriel was born in Bordeaux on March 4, 1889 into the family of Gabriel Domerge chronicler, critic, and then edit in "free" ("enter" ) and "Echo" ("I échodeParis").

Jean Gabriel from childhood through painting, he became a student at the Art School in Bordeaux, then at the Rollins School of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.

At the age of 14 to Domel received the first prize in a painting contest organized in the Paris Salon. At the same time, the young artist gets his first single of friends, your mother, Jean-Gabriel his portrait. And this picture is seen as a distant relative of the clients — Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

At 17, in 1906, the artist began to exhibit his paintings for trial, which proves his great abilities.

Studies of the home and artists of Adler and Flemming, but to admire and visit often, take painting lessons in the Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and Boldini studios.

With Toulouse-Lautrec, the artists met with their first order; they are often associated with the Moulin Rouge with beautiful dancers. With Domers Degas meet the "neighborhood". The young artist shot in the studio floor above the studio Degas, on the street Victor-Mas. On the stairs they met. Despite the icy reception, Degas accepted friendship from an unknown young man, thereby making him a check to force a redrawing of the same door twenty times. But Domerge is an opportunity for more than a year to observe and learn from Degas, he will never regret this period. Through his portraits of elegant ladies, and artists meet Boldini, admired his work, and give a positive review.

Initially, Jean-Gabriel, to try his hand at landscape, deciding to become a landscape painter, but fame, success and wealth came to the artist when he began to paint fashionable portraits and advertising covers depicting young French sirens.

With a particularly successful as his nudes (mostly models and dancers, one of which, representing the "naked", even the famous Josephine Baker).

All these women, nude or semi-nude, are very easy to identify. He Domreg show the world a real French elegant, flirty and beautiful Swan Neck. Many celebrities presented artists, including Brigitte Bardot and Gina Lollobrigida.

In 1927, the famous artist to buy a luxury villa. In Cannes, where he spent the rest of his life. His Legacy Villa Domel after his death, pass on to the city. Living on the famous street Coted Cote d'Azur, the artist is always in close proximity to a beautiful young model on the beach of the Mediterranean, inspired him to create new paintings and advertisements.


Thus, in 1955 he was appointed curator of the museum Jacquemart-Andre before his death; he organized very interesting exhibitions of paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Penta Morizot, Goya and other famous artists. Domeng was appointed holder of the Legion of Honor.

He died in 1962 in Paris.
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