1. Jean Clair was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris.
16 Facts About Jean Clair
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Jean Clair was the director of the Venice Biennale in 1995.
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Jean Clair's father was a farmer with socialist ideas and his mother a devout catholic.
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Jean Clair was born in the sixth arrondissement of Paris.
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Jean Clair was a student at two secondary schools, the lycee Jacques-Decour and the lycee Carnot, before embarking on a course of post-baccalaureat preparation, the so-called khagne, at the prestigious lycee Henri-IV in Paris.
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Jean Clair entered the literary world and became the art editor of The "La Nouvelle Revue francaise", led by the well-known Marcel Arland, Georges and Jacques Reda Lambrichs.
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Jean Clair's start as a writer was marked by the publication in this magazine of a journal-novel under the pseudonym Clair at 22, in 1962.
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Jean Clair was appointed General National Heritage "conservateur" in 1989.
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Jean Clair was the Director of the Picasso Museum, Paris, France until 2005.
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Jean Clair was the editor of "Les Chroniques de l'art vivant" which he directed from 1969 to 1975.
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Jean Clair wrote in this magazine mainly about the new generation of artists such as Buren, Boltanski, Sarkis, Le Gac and Viallat.
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Jean Clair was a professor of art history at the Ecole du Louvre between 1977 and 1980, and founded the "Cahiers du musee d'Art moderne" a series of publications of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France, that ran from 1978 to 1986.
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Jean Clair regularly participates in debates on contemporary art and the dissemination of art.
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Jean Clair was elected to the Academie francaise to the seat formerly occupied by Bertrand Poirot-Delpech on May 22,2008.
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Jean Clair was received "under the Dome" of the French Academy by Marc Fumaroli.
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Jean Clair has been a member of the scholarly society Academie du Morvan since 2010.