ƒ Alain Jacquet (1939-2008)
Gabrielle d'Estree, 1965
Silkscreen on canvas
Signed and dated on the bottom left
Annotated on the reverse on the stretcher: "AJ-GAB-65-7"
114 x 162 cm
Provenance: le Clos de Sierne gallery, Geneva
Exhibitions:
- Lodzi, Museum Sztuki, "Alain Jacquet", 1969, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue
- Grenoble, Saint-Etienne, Marseille, "3 villes.....3 Collections....", 1971, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue
- Saint-Etienne, Musee d'Art et d'Industrie, "Nouvelle peinture en France", 1974, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue p.29
- Paris, Galerie Jousse-Seguin, "Alain Jacquet", 1991, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue
- Paris, Centre Georges Georges Pompidou, Musee d'Art moderne, "Alain Jacquet", permanent collection, similar work
- Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee d'Art Moderne, "De Klein a Warhol", 1998, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue p.85
- Nice, Musee d'Art Moderne, "Alain Jacquet-Camouflages et trames", 2005, a similar work illustrated in the catalogue
- Paris, Musee Marmottan, "La toilette, naissance de l'intime", 2015, similar work
Bibliography: Jacques Lepage, Chronique de l'art vivant, n°49, "Peinture/Peinture", May 1974, a similar work illustrated p.17
This work will be included in the artist's Catalogue Raisonné, currently in preparation, under n°AJ-GAB-65-7
Note: This is a modernist rereading of the well know Fontainebleau school portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrees and her sister, the Duchesse de Villars. The subject is here reduced to a snapshot image of the leisure society, itself concealed by the differenciated treatment of color in grids and large horizontal planes.
