Claude Jeancolas (June 10, 1949 – February 10, 2016) was a French writer, art historian, and journalist.

He earned a degree from the Business School of the University of Texas where he wrote his thesis on the management of the American press.

[5] Jeancolas began his career as the head of the financial analysis department of the weekly magazine Entreprise.

He moved to Votre Beauté, a magazine that François Mitterrand edited early in his career.

His interest in art developed in 1969 after meeting the sculptor Edmond Moirignot, with whom he became a close friend and later the guardian and executor of his will.