Marcel Jean
Marcel Jean (1900 in La Charité-sur-Loire, France - 4 December 1993 in Louveciennes, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the surrealist movement in 1933. He is perhaps best known for his trompe l'oeil painting Armoire Surrealiste now in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. His work is also in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and that of MoMA in New York City.
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Marcel Jean
- Name
- Marcel Jean
- Born
- 1900
- Birthplace
- La Charité-sur-Loire, France
- Died
- December 4, 1993
- Place of death
- Louveciennes, France
- Occupation
- Painter, writer, sculptor
- Known for
- Surrealist movement
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- French.
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Marcel Jean (1900 in La Charité-sur-Loire, France - 4 December 1993 in Louveciennes, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the surrealist movement in 1933. He is perhaps best known for his trompe l'oeil painting Armoire Surrealiste now in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. His work is also in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and that of MoMA in New York City.
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Biography
He authored two books on the history of Surrealism, Surrealism Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste and L’Autobiographie du Surréalisme. Jean was a close friend of Marcel Duchamp.
The recorded working language is French. Work by Marcel Jean is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Modern Art.
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• Name — Marcel Jean • Born — 1900 • Birthplace — La Charité-sur-Loire, France • Died — December 4, 1993 • Place of death — Louveciennes, France • Occupation — Painter, writer, sculptor • Known for — Surrealist movement • Notable Works — Armoire Surrealiste
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Jean Marcel Ogier. Recorded as art historian, painter, printmaker, illustrator and medalist.
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1900
Marcel Jean born at La Charité-sur-Loire.
1993
Marcel Jean died at Louveciennes.
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La Charité-sur-Loire.
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Louveciennes.
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Literature
Literature
Jean, Marcel, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Bertrand, Jean-Marcel, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Paul, Jean Marcel, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Pascaillou, Jean Marcel, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Poussard, Jean Marcel, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Progin Laetitia, Marcel, Jean-François, Périsset, Danièle et Tardif, Maurice (2015)
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- 1.Marcel Jean. auf der Website der Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- 2.Rainer Zuch: Jean, Marcel (1900). In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online (2009).
- 3.Will Atkin: Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. 2. Auflage, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2021, S. 169 f.
- 4.Will Atkin: Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. 2. Auflage, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2021, S. 169.
- 5.Marcel Jean: Specter of the Gardenia, 1936 auf moma.org, mit Abbildung des Gipskopfs, Zugriff am 25. Juli 2025.
- 6.Robert James Belton: The Beribboned Bomb. The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art. University of Calgary Press, Calgary 1995, S. 114.
- 7.Stephanie D’Allessandro, Matthew Gale: The World in the Time of the Surrealists. In: dieselben (Hrsg.): Surrealism Beyond Borders. In: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2021 S. 8–42, hier S. 30.
- 8.Jean-Paul Clébert: Dictionnaire du surréalisme. Seuil, Paris 1996, S. 320.
- 9.Jean-Paul Clébert: Dictionnaire du surréalisme. Seuil, Paris 1996, S. 319.
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