Alain JACQUET - Portrait, 1964 Original silkscreen

Alain Jacquet : (1939-2008) is a french painter who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939 and who died in New York in 2008. He lived and worked in Paris and New York. Alain Jacquet is part of the movement of the Nouvelle figuration or Figuration narrative. After a first period, circa 1961, characterized by oil paintings which surfaces are organised by large stains of bright colours, his works goes towards "camouflages" (1962-63). He was mainly renowned in the field of Mec-Art, being one of his main representative. He would appropriate images, and made mecanic paintings which would let the grid of the serigraphy appear. Classical works, such as the Birth of Venus in 1961, or the Luncheon on the grass in 1964, are made up to look liked advertisement images. Starting from 1967, Jacquet started making braille sculptures. The dot became a genesis entity. From 1978, he made paintings with computers. In 1992, he married Sophie Matisse, great daughter of Henri Matisse, with whom he had one daughter, Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse, born in 1993.