François Pinault created the Pierre Daix Prize in 2015 as a tribute to the memory of his friend, a writer and French art historian, who passed away in 2014. Since then, the annual prize of ten thousand euros honours a work dedicated to the history of modern and contemporary art.

The next Pierre Daix prize will be awarded on Monday, December 2, 2019 at the Musée National Picasso – Paris by François Pinault.

Its jury met on June 27th to preselect the books :

Louise Bourgeois

Marie-Laure Bernadac

Paris, Flammarion, collection « Grandes biographies », April 2019

Bernard Réquichot. Zones sensibles

Jean-François Chevrier

Paris, Flammarion, April 2018

Dora Maar. La femme invisible

Victoria Combalía Dexeus

Paris, Invenit, June 2019

Préhistoire. L’envers du temps

Rémi Labrusse

Paris, Hazan, collection « Beaux Arts » May 2019

Portes closes et oeuvres invisibles

Denys Riout

Paris, Gallimard, collection «Art et Artistes», April 2019