Jacqueline Duhême
Jacqueline Duhême (15 November 1927 – 1 March 2024) was a French illustrator and writer.
Jacqueline Duhême

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- Name
- Jacqueline Duhême
- Born
- 15 November 1927
- Birthplace
- Versailles, France
- Died
- 1 March 2024
- Place of death
- Nogent-sur-Marne
- Occupation
- Illustrator Writer
- Full name
- Jacqueline Antoinette Alphonsine Duhême.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- young adult literature, literature and illustration.
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
- Languages
- French.
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Jacqueline Duhême (15 November 1927 – 1 March 2024) was a French illustrator and writer.
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Jacqueline Duhême (1927–2024) was an artist, children's writer and illustrator, among other activities, of French nationality. The artist was born Jacqueline Antoinette Alphonsine Duhême in Versailles and died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Activity centred on illustration, literature and young adult literature.
Languages used include French. Honours include Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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Key facts
• Name — Jacqueline Duhême • Born — 15 November 1927 • Birthplace — Versailles, France • Died — 1 March 2024 • Place of death — Nogent-sur-Marne • Occupation — Illustrator Writer
Biography
Biography
Born in Versailles on 15 November 1927, Duhême was a student of Paul Colin and Henri Matisse in Vence. She drew illustrations for notable poets such as Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, Blaise Cendrars, and Claude Roy. She also did illustrations in the books Le Noël de Folette, Hadji, and Irma et Igor sur le France. She also covered the Kennedy family's trip to France, Charles de Gaulles's trip to South America, and Pope Paul VI's trip to the Holy Land. In addition to her illustrating, Duhême created tapestries. She also wrote an autobiography in 2009 titled Petite main chez Matisse in which she recounted her time in Cimiez and her experiences with Louis Aragon, Colette, Pablo Picasso. In Une vie en crobards, she tells of her memories experiencing literary and artistic history in the 20th Century. She also covers her childhood in her mother's bookshop in Suresnes and her time in Greece during World War II. Jacqueline Duhême died on 1 March 2024, at the age of 96.
Autobiographies
Autobiographies
• Line et les autres (1986) • Jacqueline Kennedy et Jacqueline Duhême partent en voyage (1998) • Petite Main chez Henri Matisse (2009) • Une vie en crobards (2014)
Decorations
Decorations
• Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2016)
Identity
Identity
Jacqueline Duhême is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded with the occupation textile artist. Recorded as writer, illustrator, painter, journalist and artist. Recorded at birth as Jacqueline Antoinette Alphonsine Duhême.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1927
Jacqueline Duhême was born on 15 November 1927.
2024
Jacqueline Duhême died at Nogent-sur-Marne.
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Versailles.
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Nogent-sur-Marne.
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Youth collections
Youth collections
• Les Belles images de Jacqueline Duhême (1983) • Le Noël de Folette (1992) • Hadji (1996) • Louloute (2002) • Irma et Igor sur le “France” (2003)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3157710: Jacqueline Duhême
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- “Jacqueline Duhême”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Duhême, Jacqueline (1927-.). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- 2.Deleuze, Sylvain. Exposition : de l'atelier de Matisse aux voyages avec Jackie Kennedy… Jacqueline Duhême, les dessins d'une vie. Le Parisien. 20 December 2022.
- 3.Eckert, Yaël. La bande dessinée se frotte au réel. La Croix. 26 January 2017.
- 4."Petite main chez Henri Matisse", Jacqueline Duhême expose à son tour. France Info. 21 April 2016.
- 5.Jacqueline Duhême, "une vie en crobards". BilbiObs.
- 6.Bouhadjera, Hocine. L'illustratrice amie de Picasso et Éluard, Jacqueline Duhême, n'est plus. ActuaLitté. 4 March 2024.
- 7.Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2016. Ministry of Culture.
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