Jean Le Gac

Jean Le Gac was a French painter, photographer, illustrator, teacher and conceptual artist (1936–2025). He was born at Alès and died at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Also recorded as Jean LeGac; Z'an Leh Gaḳ.

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Recognition and collections

Jean Le Gac received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎. Work by Jean Le Gac is held by Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts and CODA Museum.

Identity

What the record establishes about Jean Le Gac.

A l'aveuglette is dated 1994 and held by Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts (inventory MAC-2006-035). Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts records 1 object associated with this heading. Jean Le Gac is recorded as painter, photographer, illustrator, teacher and conceptual artist. Jean Le Gac is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q826970. Jean Le Gac is recorded as having received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎. Rendez-vous à l'angle des rues de Belleville et Julien-Lacroix is dated 1986.

Jean Le Gac is recorded with the citizenship of France. Jean Le Gac is recorded at birth as Jean Alain Le Gac.

Catalogued works

2 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service. Their recorded dates run from 1986 to 1994.

Rendez-vous à l'angle des rues de Belleville et Julien-Lacroix, dated 1986. A l'aveuglette, dated 1994, held by Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts, inventory MAC-2006-035.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

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

Le Gac, Jean, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Jean Le Gac, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010. Kopie und Fiktion. Literarische Bezugnahmen von Jean Le Gac und Sophie Calle, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010. Grundlagen der Verknüpfung von medialer Hybridität und Identitätskonstruktionen bei Jean Le Gac und Sophie Calle, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010. Jean le Gac, Médium, 2005. Les ambiguïtés de Jean Le Gac, Focales, 2022. Narative Art. Da autoridade do referente a uma possível ficcionalidade da fotografia, OuvirOUver, 2015. Oltre l’intersemiosi. Forme fototestuali brevi e narrazione ibrida, CoSMO, 2018.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 7 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 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

the recorded working language is French.

Works named in the authority record are Rendez-vous à l'angle des rues de Belleville et Julien-Lacroix.

Work by Jean Le Gac is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts, CODA Museum and Musée d'art moderne de Paris.

Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎.

Chronology

  1. 1936Jean Le Gac born at Alès.
  2. 1986Rendez-vous à l'angle des rues de Belleville et Julien-Lacroix.
  3. 1994A l'aveuglette (Wallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary Arts).
  4. 2025Jean Le Gac died at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

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.

    Grundlagen der Verknüpfung von medialer Hybridität und Identitätskonstruktionen bei Jean Le Gac und Sophie Calle, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Jean Le Gac, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Jean le Gac, Médium, 2005

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Kopie und Fiktion. Literarische Bezugnahmen von Jean Le Gac und Sophie Calle, Hybrides Erzählen, 2010

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Le Gac, Jean, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Jean Le Gac.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q826970: Jean Le Gac

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  8. 8.

    “Jean Le Gac”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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