LUCIEN CLERGUE “HOMAGE” at Throckmorton
The internationally renowned fine art photographer, author, educator and filmmaker, LUCIEN CLERGUE (b. Arles France 1934 - ) is the subject of a photographic “HOMAGE” at Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery in New York from May 1 - July 12 that includes more than 35 vintage images from the 1950s through 2010. The 80-year old French fine art photographer, author, educator and filmmaker is a legendary talent and among the last contemporaries of longtime friends and mentors Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, who saw a photo artist in the young man and became a spiritual director of Clergue in 1956. Max Ernst was one of the first collectors of Clergue’s works, and Edward Steichen invited Clergue to exhibit at MoMA in New York in 1961. The first photographer to be elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de France, Clergue holds both the Order of the Legion of Honor and an Order of Merit and in 2013 served as Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts. The author of 75 books, Clergue works have been shown in more than 100 solo exhibitions and are featured in major museum collections. A lifelong student, Clergue earned a Master Degree and a Ph.D. and was the first photographer to present a thesis with photographs only. In 1969 he established the Recontres Internationale de la Photographie at Arles which is considered one of the most important art festivals in the world.
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
