Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE - 5000 works listed - Biography of Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE – Exhibitions/ Fairs – Professional career/Press – DOMERGUE in Cannes – DOMERGUE Champs Elysées – fashion – society parties – the Jacquemart André Museum – Works by the artist

Son of Gabriel DOMERGUE – short story writer, art critic and editor of ‘La Liberté’ and ‘L’écho de Paris’.
Jean-Gabriel is a secondary school pupil at the Lycée de Bordeaux and then attended the Lycée Rollin in Paris. He is passionate about drawing. He wins first prize in a drawing competition organised by the City of Paris, after which a friend of his mother’s commissions a portrait from him. He is 14 years old and it is his first commission… He joins TOULOUSE LAUTREC in Montmartre who is a distant cousin. He frequents his studio and, in his company, discovers the Moulin Rouge and its dancers… He at first borrows then shares a studio above that of DEGAS, on rue Victor Massé. It is in the stairwell that he meets Degas for the first time. Despite a frosty start, Degas takes a liking to him and having put him to the test by making him paint over the same door more than twenty times, he teaches him to observe and to see… for over a year. Jean-Gabriel would never regret this period. He meets and admires BOLDINI through his descriptions of elegant society women and his nervy and sophisticated drawings. He is also enchanted by CHERET’s advertising eye. 

GRAND COSTUME BALL BRINGS OLD VENICE TO EYES OF ADMIRING THRONGS AT CANNES
The Dolly Sisters at Cannes Ball
King of Gaiety  Reigns Over Brilliant Event in Which Dolly Sisters Shine.
CANNES Wednesday – The Riviera winter population, together with a great number of Parisiennes who came specially for the event, were in attendance at the grand costume ball. « The Venice of Casanova » which was given last evening at the Casino Municipal. The tickets were limited but there were nevertheless more than 500 persons present.
The big hall was decorated to represent the square in front of St. Mark’s and a fascinating sight it was to see the beautifully gowned women with their wide Venetian dress and the long black veil attached to the hat.
When the ball was at its height, the King of Gaiety was escorted into the hall and after taking his seat, bade that the entertainment go on. A short pantomine, a brief turn by the ballet and a dance by the Dolly Sisters, who won a great success. Made up the main program, after which dancing in the hall and also in the restaurant continued until five in the morning…