Books by Jean Fremon

JEAN FREMON is a French author born in 1946. The director of a contemporary art gallery by day and a writer by night, he founded the Galerie Lelong in Paris (formerly known as Galerie Maeght), then New York. 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 Fremon commissioned Bourgeois' first European exhibition. Thirty years later, he organised her last exhibition, which she curated, at the Maison de Balzac in Paris. Since 1969 he has had over twenty works published, including novels and poems (some translated by Lydia Davis), as well as essays on art, some of which have been translated into Spanish, German and Norwegian. In English, eight of his books have been published in America by independent presses, receiving praise from John Ashbery and Rosemarie Waldrop. This is his first book published in the UK.