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Jean Despres

Jean Eugene Gilbert Despres (1889 - 1980) was active/lived in France.  Jean Despres is known for Sculpture, metal objects, cruciforms, jewelry, bowls, cross pendants.

Despres, Jean
1889 - 1980

Despres is remembered as one of a group of daring, forward thinking artists and designers of the Art Moderne who broke stereotypes and boundaries with abandon and captured the defining aesthetic of the period in pieces of great style.

Jean Eugene Gilbert Despres was born in Avallon, France in 1889. The following year his parents opened a small shop selling jewellery and gifts, a decision that would influence their son’s future career and would ultimately give the Art Deco period one of its boldest creatives. Whilst still a teenager, Despres moved to Paris to take up an apprenticeship with a silversmith friend of his father’s who had a workshop in the Marais area. After work he would attend drawing classes where he honed his skills as a draughtsman and his nights were spent in the artistic quarters of Montmartre.  

Here he mixed with an eclectic group of avant-garde and bohemian designers and artists, most significantly Georges Braq   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5306 characters.]  Artist bio

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