Jacques-Émile Blanche
1861 (Paris) / 1942 (Offranville)
So who was Jacques-Émile Blanche? He himself found it difficult to position himself, as he wrote, hesitating: "I forget a little what my real profession is, painter or writer first? This questioning reflects his life's journey, between two activities, between two cities, even between two countries - France and England -, which prevented his contemporaries from classifying him in a category. Some underestimated him, as Apollinaire did with an acute pen. Others, the most numerous, considered him as a writer-journalist encountered in the social salons and who collaborated with several magazines, enjoying chronicling his time.
So who was Jacques-Émile Blanche? He himself found it difficult to position himself, as he wrote, hesitating: "I forget a little what my real profession is, painter or writer first? This questioning reflects his life's journey, between two activities, between two cities, even between two countries - France and England -, which prevented his contemporaries from classifying him in a category. Some underestimated him, as Apollinaire did with an acute pen. Others, the most numerous, considered him as a writer-journalist encountered in the social salons and who collaborated with several magazines, enjoying chronicling his time.
Artist's exhibitions
Marcel Proust, un roman parisien
16/12/2021 - 10/04/2022
(Paris) Musée Carnavalet
16/12/2021 - 10/04/2022
(Paris) Musée Carnavalet
Jacques-Émile Blanche, portraitiste de la Belle Époque.
14/05/2016 - 18/09/2016
(Deauville) Le Point de Vue
14/05/2016 - 18/09/2016
(Deauville) Le Point de Vue
Jacques-Émile Blanche, peintre, écrivain et homme du monde
07/05/2015 - 06/09/2015
(Évian-les-Bains) Palais Lumière d’Évian
07/05/2015 - 06/09/2015
(Évian-les-Bains) Palais Lumière d’Évian