Armance Léger

Armance Léger is a French art historian specializing. She graduated from the École normale supérieure (PSL) and completed her doctoral thesis — Les voltes de Daniel Pommereulle: Une traversée artistique de la seconde moitié du XXème siècle — under the supervision of Philippe Dagen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and François-René Martin (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris). The thesis is the first comprehensive monographic study of Daniel Pommereulle (1937–2003), situating his practice as a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and poet within the art history of the second half of the twentieth century, in relation to the Algerian War, Surrealism, and the upheavals of May 1968.

Since 2016 she has worked at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris as head of its research, documentation, and estates department, where she oversees the archives of artists represented by the gallery. She directed the publication Michel Journiac, le corps travesti (2018), the first monographic volume devoted to the French body artist, and is currently preparing a second monographic volume on Journiac's work.