Jean Leymarie (1919-2006) was a prominent art historian who devoted his life to bringing contemporary art to national museums.
He was chief curator at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris from 1968 to 1973, director of studies at the Ecole du Louvre, and director of the Villa Medicis French Academy of Art in Rome from 1977 to 1984..
Jean Leymarie (1919-2006) was a prominent art historian who devoted his life to bringing contemporary art to national museums