Jean Dupas

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Jean Théodore Dupas (born in 1882 in Bordeaux - 1964) was a French painter, designer, poster artist, and decorator whose work is considerated the utmost example of Art Nouveau and Art Deco visual arts.

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[edit] Life

He won the prix de Rome in 1910. His personal style ranges from academic and/or neoclassicism. Dupas has worked in various exponents of the Nouveau and Deco areas, such as the fashion magazine Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In 1925 he shows, at the Grand Exposition des Art Décoratifs in Paris Les Perruches, one of his most famous oil on canvas. In 1927, with the aide of the famous French printing house Draeger, he conceives one of the masterpieces of printed advertising, a catalogue for the fur company Max. A famous quote of his: « The greater is my work, the happy I am », as in reference for his predilection for big tasks. Thus his collaboration in the decor of famous steamships during the 1930s, emphasizing the Deco mode of the time. Among these works, the Île-de-France and the Liberté are among the first. But in 1935, with the help of glass master Champigneulle, he decorated the grand salon of the Normandie, in more than 400 square meters of painted and frosted glass.

He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1941.

[edit] Works

  • Frescos of the Saint-Esprit church, Paris
  • Frescos of the d'Albert dans la Somme church
  • Palais royal de Bucarest
  • Collège Saint Louis, Paris
  • Frescos of the Claude Monet school, Paris
  • Great frescos of the La vigne et le vin, in the Aquitaine museum, Bordeaux
  • Two frescos in the viewing room at the Bordeaux Stock Market Exchange
  • La femme en rouge (1927), Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris
  • La fontaine italienne (1926), Musée de Beauvais
  • Le char de l'aurore. This last panel constitute of Normandie which was exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2005 exhibition, Art Deco Paris. Today is housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
  • Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint Quentin
  • Musée des arts décoratifs, Bordeaux

[edit] Sources

  • Jacqueline du Pasquier, Bordeaux Art Déco, Éditions Somogy, 1997
  • Affiches de Jean Dupas. Catalogue de l'exposition, Bordeaux, 1987
  • Les Pages d'or de l'édition française, Mairie de Paris, 1988
  • Patricia Bayer, Art déco. Le livre, Éditions Florilège, 1988
  • Louis René Vian, Les Arts décoratifs à bord des paquebots français, Éditions Fonmare, 1992

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