[4] Jean Clair entered the literary world and became the art editor of The "La Nouvelle Revue française" (New French Review), led by the well-known Marcel Arland, Georges and Jacques Reda Lambrichs.

In this journal he expresses the nostalgia of his childhood and adolescence on a farm, in the countryside, which his parents left taking him with them to live in the city.

[4] He also curated many national exhibitions such as "Duchamp" (1977), "Les Réalismes"/The various form of realism (1980), "Vienne/Vienna" (1986), " L'âme au corps"/The soul and the body (1993 ), Zoran Music (1995),"Balthus ","Szafran"," Mélancolie/Melancholy "(2005)," Crime et Châtiment"/Crime and Punishment (2010) and directed the Venice Biennale for its Centennial in 1995.

Jean Clair was the editor of "Les Chroniques de l'art vivant" (The Chronicles of Living Art) which he directed from 1969 to 1975.

Jean Clair wrote in this magazine mainly about the new generation of artists such as Buren, Boltanski, Sarkis, Le Gac and Viallat.

1988: Fritz Winter Foundation Winner 1992: Psyche Award 1993: Médaille de l'histoire de l'art de l'Académie d'architecture (Medal of the Art History of the Academy of Architecture) 2007: Fondation Cino del Duca Winner Jean Clair's Acceptance speech when entering the French Academy, Juin 18, 2009 (in French)[6] Speech made by Jean Clair in the opening session the Five Academies, October 23, 2012 - Cinq Académies:[7] Jean Clair published numerous books.

Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works by Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 29, 2013); • ISBN 0300197012; ISBN 978-0300197013 The 1930s: The Making of the New Man, Paperback, Publisher: National Gallery of Canada / ABC Art Books Canada; 1st edition (June 5, 2008)

(Contributors include: Eric Michaud, author of The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (Stanford University Press); Sander L. Gilman, author of Freud, Race and Gender (Princeton University Press); Didier Ottinger of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Jean Clair, former director of the Musée Picasso, Paris)[8] Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant-Garde, 1801-2001 by Jean Clair, Jean-Louis Cohen, Didier Ottinger Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans by Jean Clair, Anthony Rudolf (Translator) Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd Date published: 3/1/1999

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