Gaëtan Picon
Gaëtan Picon was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian. He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher Albert Skira.
Balzac: Balzac par lui-même.. Microcosme ecrivains de toujou. Editions du Seui, Paris. 191 pp.Ingres: Biographical and Critical Study The Taste of Our Time, Vol. 47. Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 131 pp.The Work of Jean Dubuffet. Albert Skira, Geneva. 233 pp.Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939. Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 231 pp.Birth Of Modern Painting. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 135 pp.Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Published by Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 151 pp.