Artworks by Lucien Clergue at Westwood Gallery on artnet

Lucien Clergue

(French, 1934–2014)

Lucien Clergue

Catherine Hutin-Blay, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and the dog-men, Testament of Orpheus, Villa St. Sospir, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau as the Poet and Edouard Dermithe as Cegestius on the set of Testament of Orpheus, Studios de la Victorine, Nice, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau as the Poet discovers the gypsy camp, Quarries at Les Baux de Provence, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

The Oracle, Testament of Orpheus, Les Baux de Provence, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau and the Sphinx, Testament of Orpheus, Les Baux de Provence, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau on the camera, Studios de la Victorine, Nice, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau and the horse men, Testament of Orpheus, Les Baux de Provence, 1959

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luis miguel dominguín, jacqueline picasso, pablo picasso, jean cocteau, serge lifar, and lucia bosè, testament of orpheus, les baux de provence by lucien clergue

Lucien Clergue

Luis Miguel Dominguín, Jacqueline Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Serge Lifar, and Lucia Bosè, Testament of Orpheus, Les Baux de Provence, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau bursts the bubble, Testament of Orpheus, Studios de la Victorine, Nice, 1959

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Lucien Clergue

Jean Cocteau directing, Testament of Orpheus, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 1959

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Biography

Timeline

1934: Born in Arles, France
1959: Guest photographer on Jean Cocteau’s film Le Testament d’Orphée
1966: Recieved the Louis Lumière Prize for his film Le drame du Taureau
1969: Founded the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles with Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Michel Tournier
1974: Clergue is elected a member of the Académie in Arles, France
1979: Recieved the National Order of Merit from President Giscard d’Estaing, France
Recieved a doctorate in photography at the Université de Provence, Marseille, Franced
1986: Awarded Photographer of the Year by the Foto Fietsa in Higeshikawa, Japan
2003: Presented with the decoration Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by French president Jacques Chirac
2005: Awarded the Lucie Award for the Outstanding Life Achievement in Fine Arts in Photography
2014: Died in Nîmes, France

Exhibitions

2011: Testament of Orpheus, 1959, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009: Lucien Clergue : The Intimate Picasso, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007: Lucien Clergue, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA (solo)
2006: Lucien Clergue: Fifty Years of Photography - Vintage and Recent Works, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005: John Stevenson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France (solo)
2003: Retrospectif: Lucien Clergue, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France (solo)
1999: Retrospective exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
1998: 4 Decades of Photography, SoHo Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY
1997: Signs of Gods and Goddesses: Four Decades of Lucien Clergue’s Photography, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (solo)
1993: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1991: Picasso-Clergue on Bullfights, Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, NY
1986: Retrospective ICP, Middle Town Building, New York, NY (solo)
1985: International Center of Photography, New York, NY (solo)
Retrospective, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (solo)
1973: ICA, London, England (solo)
1962: Pavillion de Marsan, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (solo)
1961: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Public Collections

: Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Harvard University Art Museum, MA
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
: Lucien Clergue in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MI
: Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Literature

2005: Lucien Clergue: histoire d’a, Edizioni del Museo, Brescia, Italy
Portraits, Actes Sud, Arles, France
2003: Poésie Photographique, preface by Manfred Heiting, edited by E-M. Turck, Prestel Verlag, Munich, Germany
1996: Phèdre. La suprême déclaration d’amour, texts by A. Delbée, J & D, Biarritz, France
1985: Lucien Clergue, Eros and Thanatos, texts by M. Tournier and M. Fulton, New York Graphic Society, Boston, MA
1964: Lucien Clergue, Photographe, Die Arche Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland
1960: Poesie der Fotographie, introduction by J. Cocteau, DuMont Shauberg, Cologne, Germany
1957: Corps mémorable, poems by P. Eluard, Seghers, Paris, France

Lucien Clergue

(French, 1934–2014)

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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