Catherine Francblin is a French art critic, art historian, and independent curator.
Career
Francblin joined
Art Press magazine in 1975 and was the editor-in-chief until 1992. She then joined the
Paris Modern Art Museum where she headed the Educational and Cultural Service until 1998.
From 2002 to 2008, Francblin was in charge of the diffusion of the
Centre national des arts plastiques collection. She has curated exhibitions at the
Bass Museum
The Bass Museum of Art is a contemporary art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida. The Bass Museum of Art was founded in 1963 and opened in 1964.
History Early years
John Bass (1891-1978) and Johanna Redlich (m. Feb. 21, 1921) were Jewish-imm ...
(Miami), the
Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), the
Pinacoteca do Estado
A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or anc ...
(Sao Paulo), among others.
Francblin is the author of a reference work on the
New Realists. She has also published several monographs on contemporary artists, including
Daniel Buren, Bertrand Lavier, and
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle (; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monum ...
.
Selected bibliography
* ''Jean Le Gac'', Paris : Art Press : Flammarion, 1984.
* ''Daniel Buren'', Paris : Art Press, 1987.
* ''La Collection Christian Stein : un regard sur l’art italien'', Villeurbanne : Le Nouveau musée/Institut : Art édition, 1992.
* ''Les Nouveaux réalistes'', Paris : Ed. du Regard, 1997.
* ''Bertrand Lavier'', Paris : Flammarion, 1999.
* ''Niki de Saint Phalle. La révolte à l’oeuvre'', Paris : Hazan, 2013.
* ''Deux pères juifs'', Lormont, éd. Le Bord de l’eau, 2018.
* ''Jean Fournier, un galeriste amoureux de la couleur'', Paris : Hermann, 2018.
* ''Bernar Venet : toute une vie pour l'art'', Paris, éd. Gallimard, 2022 (Témoins de l'art).
References
External links
Catherine Francblin collaboration to the Centre Pompidou, Paris
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French art critics
French women art critics
Living people
French art curators
Year of birth missing (living people)
French women curators