Simon Pleasance (born 1944) is an Anglo-French art translator and writer.
He was educated at St. Edward’s School, then Keble College., Oxford.
He is a longtime resident of southern Languedoc, France, and President of the environmental watchdog Observatoire des Paysages Audois.
[1] He has previously taught at the Istituto Britannico, Florence, 1966–1967 and worked with Fay Stender’s [RIP] Prison Law Project, Oakland, California, 1971–1973.
Numerous art and other publications include studies on Christian Boltanski,[2] Sophie Calle,[3] Jeff Koons,[4] Annette Messager,[5] Claude Monet,[6] François Morellet,[7] Aurélie Nemours,[8] Fernando Pessoa,[9] Erik Satie,[10] and Jean Tinguely;[11] scores of catalogues from Alberti and Albers via Calder, Cocteau, Duchamp, Giacometti, the GRAV, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Miró, Smithson and Soutine to Wéry and Wines; collaborations with leading art critics and historians; and most recently major monographs on Futurism [12] (Rome, Paris, London), and Leonardo da Vinci [13](Chât.