Pierre Daix
Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact.
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- Name
- Pierre Georges Daix
- Born
- 24 May 1922
- Birthplace
- Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
- Died
- 2 November 2014
- Place of death
- 14th arrondissement of Paris, France
- Full name
- Pierre Georges Daix.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- journalist · writer · biographer · art historian · critic · film director · resistance fighter
- Education
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Known for
- Picasso: the blue and rose periods, a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and 1900-1906
- Honours
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour · Prix Charles Blanc · Louis Barthou Prize · Officer of the National Order of Merit · Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine)
- Languages
- French
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Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact.
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In July 1940, he created a student club, the Centre laïque des auberges de la jeunesse (Claj), which served as a legal screen for the clandestine Union of Communist Students. When David Rousset (1912-1997) spoke out about Stalin's vast system of prison camps, Daix attacked him as a liar, denying that the GULAG system existed in the Soviet Union, in a 16 page article in Les Lettres Françaises, entitled "Pourquoi M. David Rousset a-t-il inventé les camps soviétiques?" ("Why Did Mr. David Rousset Invent the Soviet Camps?"). Rousset brought libel charges against Daix and there was a public trial in France, which Rousset, who had told the truth about the camps, won in 1950. From 1980 to 1985, he was a journalist for Le Quotidien de Paris.
Pierre Daix studied at Lycée Henri-IV. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Les Lettres françaises and Éditions sociales. Positions recorded include editor-in-chief. Works named in the authority record are Picasso: the blue and rose periods; a catalogue raisonné of the paintings, 1900-1906. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Prix Charles Blanc, Louis Barthou Prize and Officer of the National Order of Merit.
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• Name — Pierre Georges Daix • Born — 24 May 1922 • Birthplace — Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France • Died — 2 November 2014 • Place of death — 14th arrondissement of Paris, France • Resting Place — Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine
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- 1.Relevé des fichiers de l'Insee
- 2.Thomas Wieder, « Pierre Daix. Écrivain, historien de l'art », Le Monde, 5 novembre 2014.
- 3.Maurice Ulrich, « Pierre Daix : son cœur, de battre, n'avait jamais cessé », L'Humanité, 3 novembre 2014.
- 4.Le siècle des intellectuels, Michel Winock, Seuil, 1997.
- 5.Lors d’un procès qui l’opposait au Parti communiste français, en novembre 1950, David Rousset allait prouver que Staline avait livré des résistants à Hitler et mettre en lumière l'étendue de la répression en Union soviétique… Voir à ce sujet l'ouvrage de Tzvetan Todorov, Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien. Enquête sur le siècle, Robert Laffont, 2000.
- 6.Frédéric Verger, « Les Lumières et le goulag » in la Revue des deux Mondes, n° 1, janvier 2011, .
- 7.Pierre Daix, Tout mon temps, révision de ma mémoire, (Voir en bibliographie), p. 308.
- 8.Notice "Pierre Daix" (signée par Philippe Olivera), Dictionnaire biographique, mouvement ouvrier, mouvement social de 1940 à mai 1968 (le Maitron), volume 4, éditions de l'Atelier, 2008.
- 9.François Albera, "Léon Moussinac, Journal des 60 ans. 19 janvier 1950" – 19 janvier 1951, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, 2019 https://journals.openedition.org/1895/7647.
- 10.Léon Moussinac, Journal des 60 ans. 19 janvier 1950 – 19 janvier 1951, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, 2019, https://journals.openedition.org/1895/7647.
- 11.Article publié par Catherine Nay et Patrice de Néritens, dans Le Figaro Magazine du samedi 24 février 2001 https://www.samuelhuet.com/kairos/35-aletheia/159-pierre-daix-autocritique.html#footnote1anc.
- 12.Pierre Daix, J’ai cru au matin, Paris, Laffont, 1976, p. 314.
- 13.Meeting, salle de la mutualité, organisé par le P.C.F., en hommage à la mémoire de Lénine, le 20 janvier 1953 https://www.cinearchives.org/Films-447-164-0-0.html.
- 14.Stalinisme : le « complot des Blouses blanches » par Jean-Michel Krivine Imprecor Numéros 553-554 septembre-octobre 2009 http://www.inprecor.fr/article-Stalinisme---le-%C2%AB-complot-des-Blouses-blanches-%C2%BB?id=788.
- 15.Anne Grynberg. Des signes de résurgence de l'antisémitisme dans la France de l'après-guerre (1945-1953) ?. Les Cahiers de la Shoah. 2001/1 (no 5). 171 à 223. 2001.
- 16.Les Derniers complots de Staline. L’affaire des blouses blanches. Complexe. 1993.
- 17.Tout mon temps, et suivantes, et notice du Maitron.
- 18.Tout mon temps, révision de ma mémoire, .
- 19.REAL DECRETO 194/1989 de 17 febrero por el que se concede la Medalla al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, en su categoria de Oro, a las personas que se citan. Bulletin officiel de l'État (Espagne). 47. 5481 url. 1989.
- 20.Prix Georges-Pompidou. www.georges-pompidou.org.
- 21.Ouvrage pour lequel Pierre Daix a obtenu le prix Louis Barthou 2005 décerné par l'Académie française.
- 22.La Bibliothèque a convié quelques écrivains et artistes à visiter ses collections : les découvertes, les libres méditations, les digressions de François Bon, Michel Chailloux, Hélène Cixous, Pierre Daix, Pierre Étaix, Pierre Guyotat et Olivier Rollin.
- 23.Voir sur s.huet.free.fr.
- 24.Voir sur crdp.ac-creteil.fr.
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