Artworks by Lucien Clergue at in focus Galerie on artnet

Lucien Clergue

Nu au barrage ce'venol, 1993

2,400–3,400 EUR

Nu du rio espagnol, 1992

2,400–3,200 EUR

Eloge de la douleur, 2000

3,700–4,700 EUR

Nu au sidean, 1979

2,300–3,500 EUR

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

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

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