Jean Deceived

Jean Theodore Dupas (February 21st 1882 with Bordeaux - 1964) is a painter, draftsman, poster artist and French decorator, representative of the Art nouveau and Art déco.

Biography

It gains the Prix of Rome in 1910. Its very personal style is described of academic or neo-classic.

It intervenes, like many artists of the time, in the most varied fields. It draws in the large magazines of mode such as Vogue and Harper' S Bazaar . In 1925, it presents to the exposure Art decorative the Parakeets , an oil on very noticed fabric. In 1927, it conceives, at the printer Draeger, one of the chiefs of work of the advertizing edition, the catalog for the furs max .

It keeps however a predilection for monumental works: “Larger is my work, more I am happy. ”

There remains very attached to its birthplace for which he carries out in particular a great composition the vine and the wine intended for the Exposure of decorative arts of 1925, like two frescos for the Labor market in 1941.

He collaborates in the decoration of several steamers, the Île-de-France and the Liberté . In 1935, with the glass Master Jacques Charles Champigneulle who will expose in his workshop of the Montparnasse boulevard the drawings préalabes to the work of decoration of the large living room of Normandy: work distinguished as for the overcome technical difficulties, chief of work to the clean direction; whose sample forerunner is visible with the Museum of the Navy in Paris, it decorates the large living room with the Normandy , that is to say 400 square meters of painting on ice. It in addition carries out many public orders and private. He becomes member of the Académie of the Art schools in 1941.

Among his pupils with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts, one counts Jean Monneret, Jean Joyet and Gabriel Deschamps.

Works

  • Frescos of the Holy Spirit church, Paris
  • Frescos of the church of Albert in the Sum
  • Royal palace of Bucharest
  • College Saint Louis, Paris
  • Frescos of the Claude Monet college, Paris
  • Large fresco the vine and the wine , museum of Aquitaine, Bordeaux
  • Two frescos in the theater of the Labor market, Bordeaux
  • the woman in red (1927), Museum of decorative arts, Paris
  • the Italian fountain (1926), Museum of Beauvais
  • the tank of the dawn . This last remaining panel of the Normandy appeared in the exposure of the Metropolitan Museum off Art in 2005, Art Deco Paris . It is today in Carnegie Museum off Art of Pittsburgh.
  • Museum Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint Quentin
  • Museum of decorative arts, Bordeaux

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