Éric de Chassey

Éric de Chassey (born 1965 in Pittsburgh ) is a French art historian and author.

Life

Chassey worked as a university professor of art history at the University of Tours. Since September 2009 he is the successor of Frederic Mitterrand director of the Académie de France à Rome.

Works (selection)

• La violence décorative: Matisse et les États -Unis ', Nîmes, Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 1998
• La peinture efficace, Une histoire de l' abstraction aux États -Unis, 1910-1960, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2001
• Henri Matisse - Ellsworth Kelly - Dessins de plantes ( jointly with Rémi Labrusse ), Paris, Gallimard et Centre Pompidou, 2002
• Version américaine, Henri Matisse Ellsworth Kelly Drawings Plant, New York City, Ginkgo Press, 2002
• Pascal Pinaud, Trans Painting, Geneva, Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain, 2003
• The Gilbert and Catherine Brownstone Collection: Hydraulic Pneumatic Muscles Smiles, Palm Beach, Norton Museum, 2003
• Eugène Leroy, Autoportrait, Paris, Gallimard, 2004
• Platitudes, Une histoire de la photographie plate, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2006