Gaëtan Picon (19 September 1915 – 6 August 1976) was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian.Centre Georges Pompidou.; Musée national d'art moderne (France) (1979), L'oeil double de Gaëtan Picon : [exposition], Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 18 avril-18 juin 1979. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 108 pp.Guy Martinière (2007), Gaëtan Picon: de l'aventure littéraire à l'action culturelle. Indes savantes, Paris, 169 pp.Agnes Callu (2011), Gaëtan Picon (1915-1976) esthétique et culture. Champion; Geneva/Paris 714 pp. He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher Albert Skira.Gaëtan Picon. Skira Albert (1904-1973). Encyclopaedia Universalis https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/albert-skira/(Accessed March 21, 2019)
Selected bibliography Balzac: Balzac par lui-même. (1956). Microcosme ecrivains de toujou. Editions du Seui, Paris. 191 pp. Ingres: Biographical and Critical Study (1967) The Taste of Our Time, Vol. 47. Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 131 pp. The Work of Jean Dubuffet (1973). Albert Skira, Geneva. 233 pp. Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939 (1977). Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 231 pp. Birth Of Modern Painting (1978). Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 135 pp. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1980). Published by Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 151 pp.
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External links Worldcat Identities: Gaëtan Picon, Overview http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50019731/