Gherasim Luca

Gherasim Luca was a Romanian and French poet (1913–1994). He was born at Bucharest and died at Boulogne-Billancourt.

Gherasim Luca in brief

Born
1913
Died
1994
Known for
poet
Place of birth
Bucharest
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Identity and origins

Gherasim Luca was recorded at birth as Salman Locker. His recorded languages were French and Romanian.

He married Mirabelle Dors, Micheline Catty and Béatrice de La Sablière.

Catalogued works

19 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1570 to 1951.

Dialectique de la dialectique. Dialogue between a Cataphore and the Triple (XII) (Dialogue entre Cataphore et le Triple (XII)), dated 1951, held by Israel Museum, inventory 192817. The Inventor Of Love Other Writings. Fata morgana. Héro-limite. Inventatorul iubirii. La fin du monde. La proie s'ombre. Le chant de la carpe. Le vampire passif. Paralipomènes. Théâtre de bouche. Un lup văzut printr-o lupă. Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Large Collar, from Perfect School to Learn How to Draw the Entire Human Body (English translation), dated n.d., engraving in black on ivory laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1887.372. Jeronimo de Bran, dated c. 1615–75, engraving in black on ivory laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1887.266. Jan Lievens, dated 1630/45, etching in black on cream laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1887.713. Venus and Cupid, dated c. 1570, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1942.290. The Abduction of the Sabine Women, dated c. 1675, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1991.295. Old Sarum, dated 1832, mezzotint on paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1929.267.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

Israel Museum: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 8 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Luca, Gherasim, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Gherasim Luca: Czerwone echo, Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne, 2021. Gherasim Luca: Pragnienia pragnienia, Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne, 2021. Ruminations jubilatoires (Gherasim Luca), Littérature et jubilation, 2015. Gherasim Luca : texte, image, son, 2020. “MUSICIENNE DU SILENCE”: IL CANTO DELLA CARPA DI GHÉRASIM LUCA, RiCognizioni, 2019. Au croisement de la poésie et de la philosophie : les vomissements de Gherasim Luca, Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2025. Poema-partitura e poéticas vocais, Outra Travessia, 2013. « Avec Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), extension du domaine des apatrides », Modern Languages Open, 2019. La puesta en escena como rasgo de estilo en la poesía francesa, Thélème, 2015. Hallucinating curls and a man-coffin. Occultist traces in Central European Surrealism, Romanica Cracoviensia, 2022. Les mondes inversés de Gherasim Luca – Étude de trois poèmes, Convergences Francophones, 2021. LE DON DE L’AMOUR ET DE L’AMITIE DU POEME. LES ENVOIS DE PAUL CELAN A NINA CASSIAN, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 11 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1913Gherasim Luca born at Bucharest.
  2. 1951Dialogue between a Cataphore and the Triple (XII) (Dialogue entre Cataphore et le Triple (XII)) (Israel Museum).
  3. 1994Gherasim Luca died at Boulogne-Billancourt.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Gherasim Luca : texte, image, son, 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Gherasim Luca: Czerwone echo, Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne, 2021

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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    Gherasim Luca: Pragnienia pragnienia, Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne, 2021

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Luca, Gherasim, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Open Library author record for Gherasim Luca (Internet Archive), 11 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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    Ruminations jubilatoires (Gherasim Luca), Littérature et jubilation, 2015

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 14 articles naming Gherasim Luca.

    open access index · Unverified

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    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Gherasim Luca.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2625369: Gherasim Luca

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10.

    “Gherasim Luca”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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