Gilles Néret

Gilles Néret (1933 – 3 August 2005) was a French art historian and publisher.

Early life
Born in 1933, he went to London in 1951 where he worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse for three years.

Career
On his return to France, he worked for the magazine Constellation before going to Japan where he organized retrospectives on Auguste Renoir, Fernand Léger and Salvador Dalí before founding the Seibu museum and the Wildenstein gallery of Tokyo.

He published numerous works on the painting of Monet, Manet and Velasquez and published works on Dalí in collaboration with Robert Descharnes. Many of them are published by Taschen.

He was awarded the Prix Élie-Faure in 1981 for the collection of art books at the École des grands pintres, which he directed at Éditions de Vergeures.

Selected publications

 * Klimt. Taschen, Köln, 2000. ISBN 382285980X
 * Salvador Dalí: The Paintings. Taschen, Köln.
 * Matisse. Taschen, Köln.
 * Erotica Universalis. Taschen, Köln.