Gaëtan Picon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gaëtan Picon

French art critic

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1915

Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1976

Profession: art critic, essayist, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gaëtan Picon (19 September 1915 – 6 August 1976) was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian.
He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux.
He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher Albert Skira.