Biographie de Jean-Paul Bouillon
Jean-Paul Bouillon is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Université Clermont-Auvergne and honorary member of the Institut universitaire de France. His numerous publications include editions of writings by art critics (de Goncourt, Zola) and artists (Kandinsky, Denis) ; monographs on Maurice Denis (1993 and 2006) and Gustav Klimt (1986) ; and surveys of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements.
He is a renowned specialist of the life and work of Félix Bracquemond, of whose graphic work he compiled the first part of a catalogue raisonné (1987). He further consecrated three exhibition-linked monographs to this artist (2003, 2004, 2005) and made Bracquemond's principal theoretical work newly accessible in a critical edition (Du Dessin et de la couleur, 2010).