Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.
[1][2][3] 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.
[4] In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan.
The gallery also represented Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky.