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Pierre Jacquemon mixed media abstract on canvas

Artist: Jacquemon, Pierre (French 1936-2002)
Title: Untitled Abstract
Date: n.d.
Medium: mixed media and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 12 inches
Description: a pictograph like abstract
Signature: signed Pierre Jacquemon lower and on canvas reverse
Frame Type: black painted strip
Frame Size: 32.5 x 12.5 inches
PIERRE JACQUEMON : (French, b. 1936 - d. 2002) Abstract Painter , Printmaker Pierre Jacquemon was born in Lyon, and suffered from polio but by the late 1950s had developed into one of the city's foremost artists and a key member of the "APF69" group Jacquemon is a painter whose sensibility is poised between the modern and the primordial; in his art and life he has chosen the steep and narrow path. His talent was already discernable in the late nineteen fifties within a context of young French painting. Had he so chosen, he could have remained, effortlessly, the foremost painter in Lyon and let it go at that. Instead, he determined to live and work in New York, to measure himself by real standards and do so without adopting the formulas upon which superficial acceptance and temporary success are often predicated. Two decades ago, young and tense Jacquemon in his self-search produced austere black-grey-white paintings to which color was admitted austere cautiously and apprehensively, as if it were tempting sin. Ever so gradually, the painter's imagery became more explicit, his color richer, and his texture fuller. As if emerging from hidden places Jacquemon's pictorial content asserted itself with increasing urgency and now stands visibly defined life work may reach a point of nature equilibrium and bring to the fore a creative integrity at it fullest and best. Pierre Jacquemon appears to have reached this phase.While ancient icons were a clear inspiration, his largely abstract paintings began to include images of suns, planets and other celestial bodies. In the 1990s Jacquemon was represented in New York by Gallery Juno, which even after his death continues to show his work. Exhibiting in solo and group shows at galleries and museums since the 1950's Jacquemon’s work can be found in the permanent collections of museums and galleries around the globe including; The Musee d’ Art Moderne de, la Ville de Paris, France; Ika Shika National University, Tokyo, Japan; the Cambridge University Art Collection, England; Magdalene College, England; the Griffith Art Center, Canton, New York; the New York University Art Collection, New York, N.Y.; the University of South Wales Museum of Art, Sydney, Australia; Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Gotaplatsen, Sweden; the Musee de Lyon, Lyon, France; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska ; Saint Paul’s School, New Hampshire; Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts the Pace University Art Museum, New York, N.Y.

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