{{Short description|French painter (1882–1964)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Jean Théodore Dupas | image = Jacques-Émile Blanche - Portrait du peintre Jean Dupas (cropped).jpg | alt = Man in dark suit and round glasses sitting in armchair | caption = Portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche, {{circa|1920}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|2|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Bordeaux, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|9|6|1882|2|21|df=y}} | death_place = | field = Painting, design, decoration, poster art | movement = Art Nouveau, Art Deco | awards = {{Plainlist| * Prix de Rome (1910) * Gold medal, Salon des Artistes Français }} }}
'''Jean Théodore Dupas''' (21 February 1882 – 6 September 1964) was a French painter, artist, designer, poster artist, and decorator in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles.
==Early life and education== Dupas was born in Bordeaux.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-7953596/ |title=Poster, The Student's Ball (Bal des Étudiants) (Primary Title) |website=Virginia Museum of Fine Art}}</ref> In 1910, he won the Prix de Rome. He continued to paint in Italy for two years, completing "Le Danse", the predecessor for his painting "Les Pigeons Blanc" (The White Pigeons), which was awarded the gold medal when presented at the Salon des Artistes Français.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PtrBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jean+Dupas%22+Prix+de+Rome+in+1910&pg=PA90 |isbn=978-0-300-20430-8 |title=French Art Deco |date=30 September 2014 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref>
==Career and style==
===1925 Paris exhibition=== In 1925, Dupas' work came to define the Art Deco movement and the school of Bordeaux. That year he participated at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, where he exhibited "Les Perruches" (also known as The Parrots or The Parakeets). The painting became one of the most recognizable works of the Art Deco movement, which flourished between the two world wars and culminated at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
===Commercial and fashion work=== The Dupas style dominated advertisement and commercial art for the entire period. He produced a great quantity of advertising works that appeared in fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In 1927, with the aide of French printing house {{ill|Draeger (printers)|lt=Draeger|fr|Draeger}}, he created a catalogue for the fur company ''Max'', considered a "masterpiece of press advertisement".<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9692810h/f78 |title=Arts et métiers graphiques |author=Charles Peignot |date=15 September 1927 |page=52}}</ref>
In the 1930s, Dupas was commissioned by Frank Pick to produce artwork for a series of posters for the underground network of London Transport.
===Ocean liner commissions=== Dupas expressed his predilection for large-scale projects: "The bigger my work, the happier I am." He collaborated on the decor of famous steamships during the 1930s, emphasizing the Art Deco mode of the time. Among these works were commissions for the ''SS Île-de-France'' and the ''SS Liberté''.
In 1934, Dupas created glass panels for the corners of the ''Normandie'''s first-class Grand Salon, representing the history of navigation. He used a technique known as ''verre églomisé'', in which portions of the pictorial scene were painted in black and various pastel colors on the reverse of plate-glass panels. Charles Champigneulle fabricated the panels. Just over twenty feet in height, his part of this mural is now exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Navigation |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/481545 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=23 February 2024}}</ref> In 1935, with the help of glass master Champigneulle, he decorated the grand salon of the ''Normandie'' in more than 400 square metres of painted and frosted glass.
===Later career=== He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1941.<ref>{{cite journal |language=fr |last1=Despugeol |date=March 1936 |title=Jean Dupas |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61087203/f47 |journal=L'Art et les artistes: Revue mensuelle d'art ancien et moderne |pages=225–229}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.primaveragallery.com/artist/jean-dupas/ |title=Jean Dupas |website=primaveragallery.com |publisher=Primavera Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00055719 |title=Dupas, Jean Théodore |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |year=2011 |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00055719 |isbn=978-0-19-977378-7}}</ref>
==Works== * Frescos of the Saint-Esprit church, Paris * Frescos of the d'Albert dans la Somme church * Palais royal de Bucarest * Collège Saint Louis, Paris * Frescos of the Claude Monet school, Paris * Great frescos of the ''La vigne et le vin'', in the Aquitaine museum, Bordeaux * Two frescos in the viewing room at the Bordeaux Stock Market Exchange * ''La femme en rouge'' (1927), Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris * ''La fontaine italienne'' (1926), Musée de Beauvais * ''Le char de l'aurore''. This last panel constitute of ''Normandie'' which was exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2005 exhibition, ''Art Deco Paris''. Today is housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. * Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint Quentin * Musée des arts décoratifs, Bordeaux
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book |last=du Pasquier |first=Jacqueline |title=Bordeaux Art Déco |publisher=Éditions Somogy |year=1997 |language=fr}} * {{cite book |title=Affiches de Jean Dupas. Catalogue de l'exposition |location=Bordeaux |year=1987 |language=fr}} * {{cite book |title=Les Pages d'or de l'édition française |publisher=Mairie de Paris |year=1988 |language=fr}} * {{cite book |last=Bayer |first=Patricia |title=Art déco. Le livre |publisher=Éditions Florilège |year=1988 |language=fr}} * {{cite book |last=Vian |first=Louis René |title=Les Arts décoratifs à bord des paquebots français |publisher=Éditions Fonmare |year=1992 |language=fr}}
==External links== {{commons category|Jean-Théodore Dupas}} * [https://www.bridgemanimages.us/en-US/search?filter_text=Jean%20Dupas&filter_group=all&filter_region=FRA&sort=most_popular Bridgeman Images] * [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dupas_jean.html Jean Dupas sur Artcyclopedia]
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