Portrait Tales

About Jean Fremon

Jean Fremon has been contributing to a trans-genre tendency in contemporary French letters since 1969. The president of the Galerie Lelong by day and a writer by night he has published over twenty books in France including poetry (translated by Lydia Davis et al.) fiction and essays on art. His work has been translated into Spanish German Norwegian and Turkish. His poetry has received praise from John Ashbery Paul Auster and Rosemarie Waldrop. Some of the artists with whom he has worked the most closely include Antoni Tapies Donald Judd Jannis Kounellis Sean Scully David Hockney and Louise Bourgeois. In 1985 he commissioned Louise Bourgeois's first European exhibition. Thirty years later he organised her last which she curated at the Maison de Balzac in Paris.