Jacques Dupin
Jacques Dupin was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.
Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems.
In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan.
He was the director of publication at Galerie Maeght, which represented Joan Miró, a close friend. The gallery also represented Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky. Giacometti and Bacon both painted his portrait.
Dupin wrote Miró's biography, numerous monographs on the artist's work, and was empowered by Miró's family to be the sole authenticating authority of the artist's work; a role that made him much sought after by collectors. In 1987, Dupin was the curator of a retrospective of Miró's work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the first such retrospective in New York since 1959.
Works
Poetry in English
Of Flies and Monkeys, translated by John Taylor, The Bitter Oleander Press, September 2011Selected Poems, selected by Paul Auster, translated by Stephen Romer and David Shapiro, Bloodaxe Books, 1992Selected Poems, Wake Forest University Press, November 1992Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974
Poetry in French
Cendrier du voyage, GLM, Paris, 1950Art poétique, PAB, Alès, 1956Les Brisants, GLM, Paris, 1958L'Épervier, GLM, Paris, 1960Gravir, Gallimard, Paris, 1963L'embrasure, Gallimard, Paris, 1969Dehors, Gallimard, Paris, 1975Ballast, Le Collet de Buffle, Paris, 1976Histoire de la lumière, L'Ire des Vents, Paris, 1978De nul lieu et du Japon, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1981Le Désœuvrement, Orange export Ltd, 1982Une Apparence de soupirail, Gallimard, Paris, 1982De singes et de mouches, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1983Les Mères, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1986Contumace, POL, Paris, 1986Chansons troglodytes, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1989Rien encore, tout déjà, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1991Echancré, POL, Paris, 1991Eclisse, Spectres familiers, Marseille, 1992Le grésil, POL, Paris, 1996Ecart, POL, Paris, 2000De singes et de mouches suivi de Les mères, POL, Paris, 2001Coudrier, POL, Paris, 2006
Joan Miro, Flammarion, Paris, 1961 Textes pour une approche sur Alberto Giacometti, Maeght éditeur, 1962 Matière du souffle, Fourbis, Paris, 1994L'espace autrement dit, Editions Galilée, Paris, 1982Claude Garache, Dessins, Paris, Conférence et Adam Biro éditeurs, 1999