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Jean Leymarie

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Gagnac-sur-Cère, Lot , France

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Jean Leymarie (17 July 1919 – 9 March 2006) was a French art historian and museum director.

Leymarie began his museum career in 1945 after studying literature and art history in Toulouse and Paris as an Assistant to the Paintings Department at the Musée du Louvre from 1944 to 1949 and Curator of the Musée de Grenoble from 1950 to 1955.

He opened the Musée national d'art moderne, then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and undertook a reorganization of the collections in preparation for the museum's transfer to the Centre Pompidou.

With the opening of the Centre Pompidou, Jean Leymarie was appointed Director of Studies at the Ecole du Louvre and, above all, Director of the Academy de France in Rome, a post he held until 1984.
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Average rating: 3.97 · 115 ratings · 17 reviews · 209 distinct works

	Chanel: A Fashionable History 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balthus 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fauves & Fauvism 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Van Gogh: Arles Saint-Rémy 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1956	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Van Gogh 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Graphic Works of the Impressionists: Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Sisley 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impressionism: volume 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watercolors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henri Matisse 1966 exhibition catalog by Jean Leymarie, Herbert Read, William S. Lieberman 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picasso: The artist of the century by Jean Leymarie, Albert Skira 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars