Domergue pronunciation
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Biography of Jean-Gabriel Domergue ( 1889-1962 )
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was born in Bordeaux in 1889. His father, a journalist and art critic, took him to visit artists’ studios, which quickly revealed his attraction to painting. Shortly after arriving in Paris, at the age of fourteen Jean-Gabriel Domergue won first prize in a municipal drawing competition and received his first commission, a portrait of a woman. Starting in 1906 he went to several studios. Jean-Gabriel Domergue spent time with Toulouse-Lautrec, a distant cousin, in his studio, and with him discovered the Moulin Rouge and its dancers. Domergue borrowed and then shared a studio above the studio of Degas, on rue Massé. Despite a cold welcome at first, Degas befriended him and for more than a year taught him how to look, and to see. Domergue also met Boldini, whose fiery and distant touch would particularly influence him. Starting in 1920, the year of his gold medal at the Salon of French Artists, his work was extremely popular. Jean-Gabriel Domergue was sought out by advertisers for catalog co
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Faith Domergue
American actress
Faith Domergue | |
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Domergue in 1946 | |
| Born | (1924-06-16)June 16, 1924 or (1925-06-16)June 16, 1925[a] New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | (1999-04-04)April 4, 1999 (age 73–74) Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1941–1974 |
| Spouses | Teddy Stauffer (m. 1946; div. 1947)Hugo Fregonese (m. 1947; div. 1958)Paolo Cossa (m. 1966; died 1992) |
| Children | 2 |
Faith Marie Domergue[citation needed] (;[7] June 16, 1924, or 1925 – April 4, 1999) was an American film and television actress. Discovered at age 16 by media and aircraft mogulHoward Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes's RKO Radio Pictures and cast as the lead in the studio's thriller Vendetta, which had a troubled four-year production before finally being released in 1950.
Domergue appeared in science-fiction a
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Domergue Jean-Gabriel
Jean-Gabriel Domergue is the grand-cousin of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His brother, René Domergue, became a short-story writer, art critic and editor at La Liberté and L'Écho de Paris.
He attended the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux, then the Lycée Rollin in Paris. Passionate about drawing, he entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he studied with Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert and François Flameng.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906, winning an honorable mention in 1908, a 3rd class medal in 1912 and a gold medal in 1920, the year in which he entered the “hors-concours” category.
He won a second Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1913.
In 1938, he created a composition featuring a nude young woman for the campaign of the new perfume Féerie de Rigaud, and that same year, he was also a member of the jury for the Miss France election.
He created the famous poster for the first edition of the Cannes Film Festival, showing a woman applauding, her back bare, her hair luxuriant, alongside a
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