HOOG, Michel 1932-

PERSONAL:

Born May 7, 1932, in Paris, France; son of Georges Hoog; married Simone Virault, January 26, 1961; children: Emmanuel, Marie, Cecile. Education: L'Institut d'Etudes de Paris, diploma, 1954; University of Paris, Litt.b., 1954; L'Ecole du Louvre, diploma, 1957.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Musée Jeu de Paume et Orangerie, 2 Rue de la Manutention, Paris 75116 France.

CAREER:

Author and museum curator. National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, assistant curator, 1960-70, curator, 1970-73; Musée Jeu de Paume et Orangerie, Paris, curator, 1974-84, chief curator, 1984—; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, conservator; École de Louvre, Paris, professor.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Bernier prize, Institut de France, 1985; named officer, Ordre du Merite (France).

WRITINGS:

Le fauvisme français et les débuts de l'expressionnisme allemand, Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France), 1966.

L'art d'aujord'hui et son Public, Editions Ouvrières (Paris, France), 1967.

L'univers de Cézanne, Scrépel (Paris, France), 1971.

R. Delaunay, Flammarion (Paris, France), 1976, translated by Alice Sachs, Crown Publishers (New York, NY), 1976.

(With Anne Distel and Sylvie Gache) L'impressionnisme, F. Hazan (Paris, France), 1977.

Monet, F. Hazan (Paris, France), 1978.

The Themes and Motifs of Manet (bound with Edouard Manet, by Raymond Cogniat), Methuen (London, England), 1983.

Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, translated by Constance Devanthery-Lewis, Rizzoli (New York, NY), 1987.

(With Emmanuel Hoog) Le marché d l'art, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France), 1991.

Cézanne: Father of Twentieth-Century Art, translated by Rosemary Stonehewer, Abrams (New York, NY), 1994.

EXHIBITION CATALOGS

Robert Delaunay, Sonia, La Galerie Nationale du Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1965.

Donation Pougny, orangerie des tuileries, Paris, 1966, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1966.

Sonia Delaunay, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1967.

Robert et Sonia Delaunay, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1967.

Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1972.

Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1974.

(With Gilbert Martin-Méry) Albert Marquet, 1875-1947, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1975.

Robert Delaunay, 1885-1941, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1976.

(With Antoinette Hallé and Gabrielle Salomon) Donation Pierre Lévy, La Ville (Troyes, France), 1977.

(With Anne Distel) De Renoir à Matisse, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1978.

Fantin-Latour, National Gallery of Canada, National Museums of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1983.

Musée de l'orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, Réunion des musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1984.

Les nymphéas de Claude Monet au musée de l'orangerie, Réunion des musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1984.

(With Collette Giraudon) Les grandes baigneuses de Picasso, Réunion des musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1988.

Maurice Marinot, peintre et verrier, Museum Bellerive (Zurich, Switzerland), 1990.

Un certain derain, Réunion des musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1991.

Les nymphéas avant et après, Réunion des musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 1992.

Contributor to numerous professional journals and publications.

Contributor to volumes such as Henri Rousseau, Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1985.

SIDELIGHTS:

Michel Hoog is a French professor and art historian specializing in masters of the late nineteenth century. He served as a curator of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris in the early 1970s, then assumed the same position at the city's Musee Jeu de Paume et Orangerie. He has taught at the Palais de Tokyo and L'Ecole du Louvre.

Perhaps Hoog's best-known English-language work is Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, which presents an account of the Impressionist artist who abruptly abandoned his middle-class security as a banker and life in France for a simpler, but quite artistically stimulating, existence in the South Pacific. A Washington Post Book World reviewer acknowledged Hoog as a "highly regarded" authority and noted the volume's "splendid reproductions." But reviewer Tim Hilton, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, described Hoog as "too ruminative a historian to dare to evaluate Gauguin's paintings," and he contended that Hoog did not "explain how Gauguin was the first considerable artist to have been brought up within the avant-garde." A Library Journal critic, however, found Hoog's volume "accessible," and a Chicago Tribune Books reviewer deemed the book "indispensible." A Time reviewer noted that the work provides readers with a "broad representation" of Gauguin's production as an artist, and a National Review critic lauded the book as "provocatively original."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, January, 1988, Lynell A. Morr, review of Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, p. 80; January, 1989, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 43.

Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 15, 1987, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 8.

National Review, January 22, 1988, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 58.

Publishers Weekly, December 4, 1987, Genevieve Stuttaford, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 57.

Time, December 21, 1987, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 64.

Times Literary Supplement, April 8, 1988, Tim Hilton, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 386.

Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), December 6, 1987, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 11.

Washington Post Book World, December 6, 1987, Michael Dirda, review of Paul Gauguin, p. 10.*