Gilles Néret (Paris, 6 November 1933 – 3 August 2005, Paris) was a French art historian and publisher.

Early life

Born in 1933, he went to London in 1951 where he worked as a journalist for

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for three years.

Career

On his return to France, he worked for the magazine ''Constellation'' before going to Japan where he organized retrospectives on

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and

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before founding the Seibu museum and the Wildenstein gallery of Tokyo. He published numerous works on the painting of

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, Manet and

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and published works on Dalí in collaboration with Robert Descharnes. Many of them are published by

Taschen Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt Taschen and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen. History The company began as Tasch ...

. He was awarded the in 1981 for the collection of art books at the

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, which he directed at Éditions de Vergeures.

Selected publications

* ''Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901'', 1995 * ''Auguste Rodin'', 1998 * ''Gustav Klimt 1862-1918'', Taschen, Köln, 2000 * ''Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935'', 2007 * ''Salvador Dalí: The Paintings'', Taschen, Köln, 2007 * ''Matisse'', Taschen, Köln * ''Erotica Universalis'', Taschen, Köln.

References

French art historians 20th-century French publishers (people) 1933 births 2005 deaths 20th-century French journalists {{France-historian-stub