Lot 37
  • 37

ALAIN JACQUET | Déjeuner sur l'herbe

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Alain Jacquet
  • Déjeuner sur l'herbe
  • signed and dated 64; inscribed with the authentication number AJ-DEJ/PAP-64-5 on the reverse
  • serigraphic ink on paper mounted on canvas, in two parts
  • each: 176 x 100 cm; 69 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.
  • overall: 176 x 200 cm; 69 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1964.

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Varenne, Genève
Natalie Seroussi, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie J, Alain Jacquet, 27 April - 7 May 1964 (variant unknown)
São Paulo, French Pavillion, IX Bienal de São Paulo, 22 September - 8 December 1967, p. 73, illustrated (variant unknown)
Kassel, Documenta 4, 27 June - 6 Octobre 1968, n.p. (text) (variant unknown)
Lodz, Sztuki Museum, Rétrospective Alain Jacquet, 19 May - 16 June 1969 (variant unknown)
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Alain Jacquet, peintures et sculptures 1961-1977, 26 January - 28 March 1978 (variant unknown)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alain Jacquet, Donut Flight 6078, 27 April - 11 June 1978 (variant unknown)
Paris, Galerie Beaubourg, Alain Jacquet, Le déjeuner sur L'herbe 1964-1989 25ème Anniversaire, 4 March - 8 April 1989, pp. 26-27, illustrated (variant unknown)
Paris, Musée d'Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, 15 December 1995 - 15 March 1996, p. 458, no. 11, illustrated in colour (variant unknown)
Amiens, Musée de Picardie, Alain Jacquet, Oeuvres de 1951 à 1998, 21 March - 17 May 1998 (variant unknown)
Châteauroux, Couvent des Cordeliers, Alain Jacquet, Camouflages 1961-1964, 19 March - 18 June 2002, pp. 98-99, illustrated in colour (variant unknown)
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Alain Jacquet: Camouflages et Trames, 29 January - 22 May 2005, pp. 85-87, illustrated in colour (variant unknown)
Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Chefs d'Oeuvres?, 12 May 2010 - 12 September 2011 (variant unknown)
New Haven, Yale School of Art, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Lunch with Olympia, 20 September - 21 November 2013 (variant unknown)

Literature

Mark Francis & Hal Foster, Pop, New York 2005, p. 144, illustrated in colour (variant unknown)

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration. Upon very close inspection only, minor wear marks are visible along the corners and edges. A light rub mark is visible in the upper right corner of the right panel. Evidence of restoration is visible under very close grazing light inspection in the lower left corner of the left panel.This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included under no. AJ-DEJ/PAP-64-5 in the forthcoming Alain Jacquet Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared by the Alain Jacquet committee and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Fabien Jacquet.