ALAIN JACQUET | Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Galerie Natalie Serroussi, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by present owner

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

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

Colour: The colours in the cataogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is slightly deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in good condition. Close inspection reveals some rubbing to the central edges of the two adjoining canvases, which is in keeping with previous installation of the work. The canvases are slack, and there is some light canvas draw to the upper corners of the right hand side canvas. There are some horizontal creases to the lower half of the composition on the right hand side canvas. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a number of dark spots of fluorescence to the left hand side canvas, towards the upper edge.
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This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Fabien Jacquet and is registered under no. AJ-DEJ/T-64-26 in the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist currently being prepared.