Élie Faure
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Jacques Élie Faure (born April 4, 1873 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France; died October 29, 1937 in Paris) was a French art historian and essayist.
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[edit] Life
He was the son of Pierre Faure and Suzanne Louise Zéline Reclus.
[edit] Works
- Vélasquez (1903)
- Formes et Forces (1907)
- Les Constructeurs (1914)
- La sainte Face (1917)
- La Roue (1919)
- La Danse sur le Feu et l'Eau (1920)
- Napoléon (1921)
- Histoire de l'art (1919-1921)
- L'Esprit des formes (1927)
- Découverte de l'archipel (1932)
- D'autres Terres en vue (1932)
- Mon périple suivi de Reflets dans le sillage (1931)
[edit] Miscellany
In the opening scene of Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Paul Belmondo's character sits in a bathtub reading Elie Faure's Histoire de l'art to his daughter.
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