Farah Pahlavi of Iran
Academician of the French Beaux-Arts
In this Autumn 1995 picture, Farah Pahlavi is seen at the Sorbonne on
the occasion of the Bicentenial of the Institute of France. The only woman
of the and its yougest foreign associate, the
Empress is surrounded here by French academicians in full regalia.
© Photo courtesy Imapress
- Paris
The French
Académie des Beaux-Arts
The heir to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and The Royal
Academy of Architecture, established respectively in 1648 and 1671, the
Académie des Beaux-Arts is one of the five corporations of the Institute
of France. It is composed of the following
members:
Secretary for life: Bernard
Zehrfuss
President: Serge Nigg,
Vice-President:
Arnaud d'Hauterives
Painting Section: Georges Cheyssial, Georges Rohner, Jacques Despierre, Bernard Buffet, Georges Mathieu, Jean Cazou, Jean Bertholle, Arnaud d'Hauterives, Pierre Carron, Jean Dewasne.
Sculpture Section: Jean Cardot, Albert Feraud, Gerard Lanvin, Claude Abeille, Francois Stahly, Antoine Poncet.
Architecture Section: Marc Saltet, Jacques Couelle, Christian Langlois, Maurice Novarina, Andre Remondet, Bernard Zehrfuss, Roger Taillibert.
Engraving Section: Raymond Corbin, Pierre-Yves Tremols, Jean-Marie Granier, Rene Quillivic.
Musical Composition Section: Marcel Landowski, Daniel Lesur, Iannis Xennakis, Serge Nigg, Marius Constant.
Open Members Section: Gerald Van der Kemp, Daniel Wildenstein, Pierre Dehaye, Miched David-Weill, Louis Pauwels, Andre Bettencourt, Marcel Marceau, Pierre Cardin, Maurice Bejart.
Motion Picture and Audiovisual Section: Marcel Carne, Rene Clement, Claude Autant-Lara, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jean Prodromides.
Foreign Associates: H.I.M. Farah Pahlavi, Andrew Wyeth, Francois Daulte, Ieoh Ming Pei, Kenzo Tange, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Philip Roberts-Jones, Sir Peter Ustinov, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Ilias Lalaounis, Josoji Kobayashi, Andrzej Wajda, Antoni Tapies.