Jean-Pierre Raynaud

Collection Jacques Caumont, Paris
Collection particulière, Suisse

Denyse Durand-Ruel, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1973, Tome 1, Paris, 1998, p.20, no.15, illustré en couleurs

This work is in good original condition. A few paper losses and tears can be seen to the small posters, visible in the catalogue illustration, all due to the artist technique. There is some surface dirt throughout. Colours: the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate.
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signed and dated on the back ; wood, tract, paint. Executed in 1963.

" En 1962, lorsqu'il exécute ses premières constructions, Raynaud n'a que vingt-trois ans. Et déjà son style s'établit inexorablement. Les artistes immédiatement précédents, et dont il se sent proche, particulièrement les Nouveaux Réalistes comme Arman ou les Affichistes, lui servent de point d'ancrage. Mais contrairement à ceux-ci qui préservent la composition picturaliste - de même que Rauschenberg aux Etats-Unis - Raynaud récuse la peinture. Il se fournit à la décharge de Gennevilliers dans la région parisienne et procède à des assemblages quelque peu inquiétants - tout au moins dépourvus de l'humour grinçant d'un Tinguely ou d'un Spoerri - où les tessons de bouteille, les crocs de boucher, prennent la place des stocks du marché aux puces."
(Alfred Pacquement, An art of memory, catalogue The Menil Collection Houston, 1991)

Robert Rauschenberg, Aenfloga, 1961, (185,4 x 127 x 34,9 cm), collection particulière. © Robert Rauschenberg/ ADAGP, Paris, 2009