Lot no. 59
59. 59AR W ALAIN JACQUET (1939 -2008)
Portrait of a Man
1964
signé, titré et daté 1964 au revers
sérigraphie sur toile
signed, titled and dated 1964 on the reverse
silkscreen on canvas
162 x 116.5 cm.
63 3/4 x 45 7/8 in.
Nous remercions l'Estate d'Alain Jacquet pour les informations qu'ils nous ont communiquées sur cette œuvre, un certificat d'authenticité pourra être obtenu à la charge de l'acquéreur et sur demande auprès de la Estate d'Alain Jacquet.
Provenance
Collection particulière, Paris
Bibliographie
Alain Jacquet, Helen's Boomerang, Genève 1978, p. 48, illustré en couleurs (chromie saturée)
Artiste majeur de la scène artistique française et internationale, il n'est pas aisé de résumer la création d'Alain Jacquet tant il n'eut de cesse de redéfinir son art. Souvent assimilé au mouvement Pop-Art, dont il est contemporain, Pierre Restany définira Alain Jacquet comme « un pionnier du multiple, poète du Braille et arpenteur de la fumée, fabriquant d'objet -sculpture à double sens... »
Tout au long de son parcours artistique, l'artiste, représentant actif du Mec'Art, travaillera sur des supports et techniques novatrices, tout en interrogeant la frontière entre la figuration et l'abstraction, invitant ainsi le spectateur à appréhender sous un nouveau jour la lecture de ses œuvres.
A partir de 1963, Alain Jacquet crée la célèbre série des camouflages, jeux de superpositions, de translations, de confusions et finalement d'absorptions des sujets les uns envers les autres. Dans le Camouflage que nous proposons, l'artiste suggère le corps d'une femme, renvoyant à la pin-up du marchandising américain, dissimulée sous ce que nous devinons être un logo commercial.
Avec Portrait of a Man, Jacquet explore les ressources technologiques de son temps et met en place un processus de brouillage de l'image. La sérigraphie permet, en effet, à l'artiste de réinventer le point et d'aborder l'univers de l'abstraction, qui devient le véritable thème de son œuvre. Issu du célèbre Déjeuner sur l'herbe, ce portrait de l'artiste Mario Schifano est, à cet égard, iconique de son Œuvre.
Parquet's, montre ici la volonté de l'artiste de synthétiser l'idée de l'objet lui-même, pour donner au spectateur l'envie de s'interroger sur le devenir de l'image intrinsèque.
L'année 1969 et la mission spatiale Apollo, offrira à l'artiste un nouveau sujet d'expression. Il s'approprie une image désormais ancrée dans l'imaginaire collectif : la Terre vue du ciel. De ce cliché historique, Jacquet interprète la planète comme un point à l'origine de toute chose, s'amusant à détourner celle-ci à sa guise ou quand la terre devient objet de convoitise et l'illustration du dicton Qui vole un œuf...
A major artist on the French and international art scene, it is difficult to sum up Alain Jacquet's work, so constantly has he redefined his art. Often equated with the Pop-Art movement, of which he was a contemporary, Pierre Restany defined Alain Jacquet as "a pioneer of the multiple, a poet of Braille and a surveyor of smoke, a maker of sculptures - objects with a double meaning...»
Throughout his artistic career, as an active representative of Mec Art, the artist worked with innovative media and techniques, questioning the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, and inviting the viewer to see his work in a new light.
From 1963 onwards, Alain Jacquet created the notorious Camouflage series: with a number of superimpositions, translations and confusions, ultimately the subjects absorb one another. In this Camouflage, the artist suggests the body of a woman, reminiscent of the American merchandising pin-up, hidden beneath what we guess is a commercial logo.
With Portrait of a Man, Jacquet explores the technological resources of his time creating a process that blurs the image. Silk-screen printing allowed the artist to reimagine the dot to approach abstraction which became the core theme of his work. Taken from the famous Déjeuner sur l'herbe, this portrait of the artist Mario Schifano is, in this respect, iconic to his Oeuvre.
Parquet's shows the artist's desire to synthesise the idea of the object itself. It encourages the viewer to question the evolution of an elemental image.
The year 1969 and the Apollo space mission gave the artist a new subject to investigate. He appropriated an image that had become part of our collective imagination: the Earth seen from the sky. Using the historic snapshot, Jacquet interprets the planet as a dot at the origin of all things, and enjoys altering it at will; here representing the earth as an object of desire illustrating the French saying "Qui vole an oeuf vole un boeuf" (who steals an egg steals an ox).
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Modern and contemporary paintings
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