{{Short description|French painter (1936–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2026}} thumb|Jean Le Gac, French conceptual artist'''Jean Le Gac''' (6 May 1936 – 26 December 2025) was a French conceptual artist, painter, pastelist and photographer who employed mixed media,<ref>{{Cite web |title=ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) |url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500107862 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.getty.edu}}</ref> frequently video or photography and text to document his investigations and sketched scenes.
== Life and career == Jean Le Gac was born in Alès, France on 6 May 1936.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/personne/cR5G4b |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}</ref> His poetic photographic interventions in which he is most often the main subject are accompanied either by typed text describing the underlying story in the artwork or handwritten notes in the art piece itself.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The World News - Jean Le Gac |url=https://theworldnews.net/fr-news/arts-jean-le-gac-la-peinture-a-lire}}</ref> Member of the Narrative art movement<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=8 December 1974 |title=Let's Not Read Narrative Art Too Seriously |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/08/archives/lets-not-read-narrative-art-too-seriously.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> since the seventies, Le Gac ofttimes tells a story about an imaginary character that viewers can easily identify with the artist himself.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grundberg |first=Andy |date=28 February 1982 |title=PRACTITIONERS OUTSIDE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADITION |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/arts/practitioners-outside-the-photographic-tradition.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He calls it a “metaphor for painting."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac {{!}} Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire |url=https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/centre-arts-and-nature/jean-le-gac |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=domaine-chaumont.fr |language=en}}</ref> Le Gac also uses the artist's book as a central part of his art practice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=On the Trail of Jean Le Gac: The Case of a Painter Who Never Paints |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/198606/on-the-trail-of-jean-le-gac-the-case-of-a-painter-who-never-paints-35034 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Le Gac is a Professor and lecturer at Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques.
Le Gac was selected to represent France at the Venice Biennale in 1972 and at Documenta 5 in 1972 in Kassel, Germany. Following Jean Le Gac's first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1973 in Oxford, United Kingdom, Jean-Hubert Martin, a leading art historian and curator of international exhibitions organized the first Le Gac exhibition in France at the Centre Pompidou in 1978.
In 1991, France's national state-owned railway company (SNCF) commissioned Le Gac to create work for the stained glass ceiling of the newly renovated train station in the Alsatian town of Colmar in France. Through his glass enclosed paintings, Le Gac drew the adventures of twin sisters who were tied up next to the rails but saved by a painter hero.<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'art contemporain dans la rue (2/6). Roman de gare en images à Colmar |url=https://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2018/07/25/roman-de-gare-en-images-a-colmar |access-date=16 October 2022 |website=www.lalsace.fr |language=FR-fr}}</ref>
In 1992, Le Gac was commissioned by the City of Cannes, France, to realize four multi-media artworks in the old fortress prison of the Fort Royal of Île Sainte-Marguerite, famous for having ‘hosted’ the Masque de Fer (Man in the Iron Mask) incarcerated during the reign of King Louis XIV during the 17th century. Le Gac used aquarelle, pastel, acrylic paint, and video projections to create murals in four different jail cells of the fort. Each painting is associated with a video in which a fixed image of the artist appears and whispers a story of the paintings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Peintre prisonnier (Jean Le Gac) — atlasmuseum |url=https://atlasmuseum.net/wiki/Le_Peintre_prisonnier_(Jean_Le_Gac) |access-date=16 October 2022 |website=atlasmuseum.net}}</ref>
As in many of his other works, the concurrent use of text and image allows Le Gac to draw us into his poetic imagination, transporting the viewers in his inner voyages full of trains, dreams, plants, pastels, and photographs, the traces of real and imaginary wanderings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LE GAC, Jean - Le Delarge -Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains |url=https://www.ledelarge.fr/19416_artiste_LE_GAC_Jean |access-date=16 October 2022 |website=www.ledelarge.fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac {{!}} Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire |url=https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/centre-arts-and-nature/jean-le-gac |access-date=16 October 2022 |website=domaine-chaumont.fr |language=en}}</ref> One typical such early work is “''Le Roman d’Aventure''” made in 1972, where Le Gac represents himself both as the painter searching for an elusive character he never catches up with and as the narrator behind the camera that documents his desperate search.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larousse |first=Éditions |title=Jean Le Gac - LAROUSSE |url=https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/peinture/Jean_Le_Gac/152941 |access-date=16 October 2022 |website=www.larousse.fr |language=fr}}</ref> In those “photo-texts” as Le Gac calls them, he talks about himself in the third person and chases his own elusive dream of becoming a painter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Journal de L'art Contemporain en Bourgogne, Hiver 1999-2000, "Jean Le Gac, Le Retour du Peintre" |url=https://www.interface-horsdoeuvre.com/wp-content/uploads/HDO_6.pdf}}</ref>
Le Gac died on 26 December 2025, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.libramemoria.com/defunts/le-gac-jean/1a66af5df04d4e75b2edc4dcb0d642c9 |website=Libra Memoria |access-date=31 December 2025}}</ref>
== Selected solo exhibitions == * 1973: “Imitations of Jean Le Gac” at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web |title="Imitations of Jean Le Gac" at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |url=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay/GETTY_ALMA21162769620001551/GRI |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=primo.getty.edu |language=en}}</ref> * 1978: “Le Peintre, Exposition Romancée, Jean Le Gac,” at the Musée National d'Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Peintre, Exposition Romancée, Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/czA6nb8 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * 1984: “Jean Le Gac : un peintre de rêve" at the Musée d'art Moderne de Paris, France.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : Le peintre de rêve |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/20931621 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.worldcat.org}}</ref> * 1992: “Jean Le Gac et les peintres amateurs de Fribourg”, Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite web |title=Friart – Jean le Gac et les peintres amateurs de Fribourg |url=https://friart.ch/expositions/1992/jean-le-gac-et-les-peintres-amateurs-de-fribourg |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg |language=fr}}</ref> * 1994: “Jean Le Gac : días con y sin pintura” Museo Provincial de Valencia, Valencia, Spain<ref>{{Cite web |title=datos.bne.es |url=http://datos.bne.es/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=datos.bne.es |language=es}}</ref> * 2003: Musée du Château Villeneuve, Vence, France<ref>{{Cite web |last=Debailleux |first=Henri-François |title=A Vence, le cas Le Gac |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2003/09/02/a-vence-le-cas-le-gac_443616/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> * 2006: Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArtFacts |title=Jean Le Gac - Villa Tamaris Pacha {{!}} Exhibition |url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/jean-le-gac-villa-tamaris-pacha/111004 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=ArtFacts |language=en}}</ref> * 2007: Jean Le Gac "en dormant, en lisant" à l’arsenal, in Soissons, France<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2013 |title=Jean Le Gac - Magazine : Art actuel, Art contemporain |url=http://www.artpointfrance.info/article-6200677.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=archive.ph |archive-date=12 April 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130412230658/http://www.artpointfrance.info/article-6200677.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2009: “Effraction douce”, Musée des tapisseries, Aix en Provence, France<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 July 2009 |title=Jean Le Gac, artiste tisseur |url=https://www.artpress.com/2009/07/01/jean-le-gac-artiste-tisseur/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=artpress |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * 2010: Jean Le Gac dans la collection àcentmètresdumonde, Hôtel Campredon, Maison René Char, L'Isle-sur-la-sorgue, France and at the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris, France<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exposition Jean Le Gac au Pavillon Carré de Baudoin |url=https://www.acentmetresducentredumonde.com/content/uploads/2020/09/dp-exposition-jean-le-gac-au-pavillon-carre-de-baudouin.pdf}}</ref> * 2022: Chateau de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, retrospective: “Jean Le Gac, la peinture à lire” (“''Paintings you can read''”).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac {{!}} Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire |url=https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/centre-arts-and-nature/jean-le-gac |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=domaine-chaumont.fr |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 June 2022 |title=Arts : Jean Le Gac, la peinture à lire |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/06/24/arts-jean-le-gac-la-peinture-a-lire_6131824_3246.html |access-date=30 August 2022}}</ref>
== Selected group exhibits == * Venice Biennale, French selection in 1972 * Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 1972 (Documenta 5) and in 1977 (Documenta 6). * Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1972<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ben Vautier, Christian Boltanski, Jean Le Gac, John C. Fernie |url=https://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch/ausstellungen/ben-vautier-christian-boltanski-jean-le-gac-john-c-fernie/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=KUNSTMUSEUM LUZERN |language=de-DE}}</ref> * Exhibited in New York, NY, at the John Gibson Gallery in 1974,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alan Moore on Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197404/jean-le-gac-70132 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.artforum.com |date=April 1974 |language=en-US}}</ref> in 1976,<ref>{{Citation |last=Filliou |first=Robert; Beckley |title=Letter to Tom Marioni from John Gibson Gallery Inc |date=1976 |url=https://calisphere.org/item/2a168e22a6b658cb5dd37373efc5a7cb/ |access-date=30 August 2022}}</ref> and in 1979<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac. 2 illustrated exhibition announcements cards, John Gibson Gallery, New York |url=https://www.jeannoelherlin.com/product/jean-le-gac-2-illustrated-exhibition-announcements-cards-john-gibson-gallery-new-york/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=J.N. Herlin, Inc. |language=en-US}}</ref> and in 1982 at the Hal Bromm gallery.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Hilton |date=12 February 1982 |title=16 GALLERIES SHOW NEW ART FROM FRANCE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/12/arts/16-galleries-show-new-art-from-france.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * “Hermit, Researcher, Social Worker? Changing artists’ self-understanding” exhibition at the Kunstverein Museum, Hamburg, Germany in 1979<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eremit? Forscher? Sozialarbeiter? – Kunstverein in Hamburg |url=https://www.kunstverein.de/en/ausstellungen/eremit-forscher-sozialarbeiter |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.kunstverein.de}}</ref> * “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY in 1984<ref>{{Cite web |title=An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2220 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * “L’Époque, la Mode, la Morale, la Passion,” group show at the Musée National d'Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=14 August 1987 |title=ART REVIEW : MIXED SHOW AT THE POMPIDOU CENTER |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-14-ca-742-story.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=}}</ref> * “More ore than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY in 1992<ref>{{Cite web |title=More than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/367 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * “Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY in 1995<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995 {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/456 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany in 2007<ref>{{Cite web |title=What does the jellyfish want? - Museum Ludwig, Köln (31.3.-15.7.07) - Koeln |url=https://www.art-in.de/ausstellung.php?id=1375 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=art-in.de |language=De-de}}</ref> * “Don Quijote Group Show,” Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada, Spain in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArtFacts |title=Don Quijote {{!}} Exhibition |url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/don-quijote/845857 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=ArtFacts |language=en}}</ref> * “Is this how men live?” The Maeght Foundation Collection in 2018<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is this how men live? The... {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} MutualArt |url=http://www.fondation-maeght.com/en/exhibit/236/_-est-ce-ainsi-que-les-hommes-vivent-_-_is-this-how-men-live-_ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.fondation-maeght.com |language=en |archive-date=16 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216032256/http://www.fondation-maeght.com/en/exhibit/236/_-est-ce-ainsi-que-les-hommes-vivent-_-_is-this-how-men-live-_ |url-status=dead }}</ref> * La Base, Espacio cultural de La Marina de Valencia, Spain, in 2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=EXHIBITION. Vicent Madramany Collection |url=https://www.wdcvalencia2022.com/events/exposicion-coleccion-acentmetresducentredumonde-en-la-base/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=WDC2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> * Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMC) Saint Etienne, France in 2021-2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Double I {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} MutualArt |url=https://mamc.saint-etienne.fr/en/exhibitions |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=mamc.saint-etienne.fr |language=en}}</ref>
== Collections == * 25 artworks at Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France<ref>{{Cite web |title=Recherche |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/recherche/oeuvres?terms=salle%20de%20spectacle&display=Grid |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * Artwork at MOMA, New York, NY<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/3428 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * Artwork by Le Gac at the MACBA Museum in Barcelona, Spain<ref>{{Cite web |title=Buscador - General {{!}} MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona |url=https://www.macba.cat/en/buscador/tipo/documento_archivo |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.macba.cat |language=en}}</ref> * MAMCO / Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite web |title=MAMCO Genève - Collection - Catalogue - Jean Le Gac, La Grande Sieste de Bages, 1984 |url=https://www.mamco.ch/1017/Catalogue/3164/Jean-Le-Gac-La-Grande-Sieste-de-Bages-1984 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.mamco.ch}}</ref> * Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France<ref>{{Cite web |title=Online collection |url=https://www.mamac-nice.org/en/the-collection/online-collection/ |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=MAMAC de Nice |language=en-GB}}</ref> * MUMOK / Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ohne Titel |url=https://www.mumok.at/en/ohne-titel-55 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.mumok.at |language=en}}</ref> * Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artworks |url=https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |language=en}}</ref> * Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac {{!}} People {{!}} The MFAH Collections |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/23605/jean-le-gac |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=emuseum.mfah.org |language=en}}</ref> * Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands,<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'Armoire à glace et le peintre |url=https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/collection/details/collection/?lookup%5B1673%5D%5Bfilter%5D%5B0%5D=id%3AC1190 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Van Abbe Museum |language=en}}</ref>
== Public works == thumb|Mural by Le Gac on a 5-story building wall in Paris, that represents a kneeled down detective searching for the painter
* In 1986, Le Gac was commissioned to paint a mural on a 5-story building wall in Paris, at 52 Rue de Belleville, 20th arrondissement, that represents a kneeled down detective searching for the painter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Worldsforus |date=4 September 2016 |title=A Glimpse of Urban Paris: Street Art in the City of Lights • Worlds For Us |url=http://worldsforus.com/paris-streetart-belleville-part3/ |access-date=29 September 2022 |website=Worlds For Us |language=en-US}}</ref> * In 1991, Le Gac was commissioned by SNCF (National Company of French Railways) to create works on the glass ceiling of a train station in Colmar, France.<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'art contemporain dans la rue (2/6). Roman de gare en images à Colmar |url=https://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2018/07/25/roman-de-gare-en-images-a-colmar |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.lalsace.fr |language=FR-fr}}</ref> * In 1992, Le Gac was commissioned by the City of Cannes, France, to realize four multi-media artworks in the old prison of the Fort of Île Sainte-Marguerite.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Peintre prisonnier (Jean Le Gac) — atlasmuseum |url=https://atlasmuseum.net/wiki/Le_Peintre_prisonnier_(Jean_Le_Gac) |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=atlasmuseum.net}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * “Imitation of Jean Le Gac” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Translated by Vivien Gordon, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, English language, Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1973<ref>{{Cite web |title=Imitation of Jean Le Gac translated by Vivien Gordon. Oxford : Museum of Modern Art, 1973 |url=https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=GRI&docid=GETTY_ALMA21162769620001551&lang=en_US&context=L |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=primo.getty.edu |language=en}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac : le décor, le roman d'aventures, les vues, le peintre, les images bavardes, les anecdotes” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Muzʼeon Yiśrael, Jerusalem, Israel, language English, Publisher: Musée d'Israël, Jérusalem, Israel, 1974<ref>{{Cite book |title=Jean le Gac, le décor, le roman d'aventures, les vues, le peintre, les images bavardes, les anecdotes |oclc=47715059 }}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac par Le Gac Jean” Authors: Ann Hindry, Jean Le Gac, Musée Léon Dierx, French language, published by Cercle d'Art; Musée Léon Dierx : Conseil général de la Réunion; Editions Sainte Opportune, Paris, France, 1992, {{ISBN|9782702203477}} * “La chasse au trésor de Jean Le Gac” (exposition, Musée de Saint Germain en Laye, 24 octobre 2007-5 mai 2008) Authors: Jean Le Gac, Musée d'archéologie nationale France, French, published by Réunion des Musées nationaux, Paris, 2007, {{ISBN|9782711854257}} * “L'atelier de Jean Le Gac” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Evelyne Artaud, French, Publisher: Thalia, Paris, France, 2010, {{ISBN|9782352780830}} * “Jean Le Gac : das Echo und sein Maler” : Ausstellung, Installationen, Filme : 24. Oktober-30. November 1988, Authors: Jean Le Gac (Artist), Günter Metken, Gerhard Fischer, German, Publisher: Daedalus, Wien, Austria, 1988, {{ISBN|978-3-900911-00-3}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean LeGac : das Echo und sein Maler; Ausstellung, Installationen, Filme, 24. Oktober - 30. November 1988 - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek |url=http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/PZA7W7SJSJXB2NMJZIRFEHMTTKIFK2HU |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de |language=de}}</ref> * “La machinerie Le Gac” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Kristell Loquet, Jean-Luc Parant, French, Publisher: Le Poney, Illiers-Combray, France, 2008, {{ISBN|9782916452029}} * “Jean Le Gac : le peintre, exposition romancée” : Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, [11 janvier-27 février 1978], Authors: Jean Le Gac, Günter Metken, Musée national d'art moderne (France), French, Publisher: Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1978, {{ISBN|9782858500543}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : le peintre, exposition romancée : Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 1978 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/5028171}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac : der Maler” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Günter Metken, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany, German, Publisher: Edition Lebeer Hossmann, Brüssel, 1977<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : Der Maler by Kunstverein, Hamburg, 1977 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/231839104}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac, un peintre de rêve" : ARC Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 4 juillet-23 septembre 1984, Authors: Jean Le Gac, Suzanne Pagé, Béatrice Parent, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, French, Publisher: Le Musée, Paris, 1984<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : "un peintre de rêve" : ARC Musée d'art moderne, Paris, 1984 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/20931621}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac : días con y sin pintura” Authors: Jean Le Gac, Palau dels Scala Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Publisher: Diputación Provincial de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 1994<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le; Días con y sin pintura València, 1994 |url=https://www.alfonselmagnanim.net/es/libro/jean-le-gac_115478/}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac : de schilder van de groet = le peintre des salutations”, Authors: Jean Le Gac, Daan van Speybroeck, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Print Book, Dutch Publisher: SUN, Nijmegen, 2002, {{ISBN|9789058750693}} * “Jean Le Gac et le photographe”, Authors: Jean Le Gac, Michèle Auer, Venus Khoury-Ghata, French, Publisher: Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001, {{ISBN|9782825801338}} * “Et le peintre : tout l'oeuvre roman”, 1968–2003, Author: Jean Le Gac, French, Publisher: Galilée, Paris, France, 2004, {{ISBN|9782718606316}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : Et le peintre : tout l'oeuvre roman, 1968-2003 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/55509548}}</ref> * “Le Peintre de Tamaris près d'Alès, Recueil de photos et de textes”: 1973–1978, Crisnée, Belgium, French, Published by Yellow Now, 1988, {{ISBN|9782873400316}} * “Introductions aux œuvres d'un artiste dans mon genre”, by Jean Le Gac, Arles, French, published by Actes sud, 1987, {{ISBN|9782868691583}} * “Le peintre intercalaire” by Jean Le Gac, Paris, published by Deyrolle, French, Paris, France, 1990, {{ISBN|9782908487022}} * “Je t'écris, collection, L'art en écrit by Jean Le Gac, French, published by éditions Jannink, Paris, France, 1998, {{ISBN|978-2-902462-45-2}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Le Gac : Je t'écris - Les presses du réel |url=https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=8340&menu=0 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=www.lespressesdureel.com}}</ref> * “Itinéraires” by Jean Le Gac, French, Published by: Éditions La Pionnière, Paris, France, 2008<ref>{{Cite web |title=" Itinéraires " de Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.lapionniere.com/livres/itineraires-jean-gac |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=La Pionnière |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * “La Salle des herbiers, musée” by Jean Le Gac, French, Published by: Éditions La Pionnière, Paris, France, 2000<ref>{{Cite web |title=" La Salle des herbiers, musée " de Jean Le Gac |url=https://www.lapionniere.com/livres/salle-herbiers-musee-jean-gac |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=La Pionnière |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * “Tour of the World” and “The Excursion” by Jean Le Gac, photographic serials published in 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date= |title=Jean Le Gac : Tour of the World, 1976 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/art-photography/3739/tour-of-the-world-jean-le-gac |access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref> * “Jean Le Gac, l'effraction douce”, by author: Laurent Olivier, French, published by Éditions La Pionnière / Pérégrines, France, 2009, {{ISBN|9782908092523}} * “Jean Le Gac,” by author: Catherine Francblin, French, published by Art Press Flammarion, Paris, France, 1984, {{ISBN|9782080125026}} * “Jean Le Gac, le peintre blessé,” by Dimosthenis Davvetas and Bernard Marcadé, French, published by Éditions Galilée, Paris, France, 1988, {{ISBN|9782718603438}} * “Narrative Art, Qualcosa di / something by Jean Le Gac” by Paolo Tonini, Italian and English languages, published by L’Arengario Studio Bibliografico, Gussago, Italy, 2021<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tonini |first=Paolo |date=26 February 2021 |title=Qualcosa di / something by JEAN LE GAC |url=https://www.academia.edu/49116426 |journal=Qualcosa di / Something by JEAN LE GAC}}</ref> * “Habiter la peinture : expositions, fiction avec Jean Le Gac” by Sandrine Morsillo, Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan, French, Published: December 2004, {{ISBN|9782747554565}} * “Le peintre fantôme =: Der Phantom-Maler” by Jean Le Gac, French, German, Publisher: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Published: December 1992, {{ISBN|9783893090525}} * “Où sont les couleurs ?” by Jean Le Gac, French, Publisher: Seuil Jeunesse, Published: December 2001, {{ISBN|9782020514392}} * Les Couleurs De L'Argent” by Helene Delprat, Aki Kuroda, Jean Le Gac, Sol LeWitt, Ouattara, Jean-Pierre Pinc, Publisher: Edition du Musée de La Poste, French, Published: December 1991, {{ISBN|9782905412096}}
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==Sources== * {{Cite web |last=Larousse |first=Éditions |title=Jean Le Gac - LAROUSSE |url=https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/peinture/Jean_Le_Gac/152941 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=www.larousse.fr |language=fr}}
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