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Paris, France, France
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Le parcours d'un collectionneur
Alain Jacquet was born in 1939, in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. After two years of studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he changed tack and taught himself to paint. From early on, he befriended influential figures of Nouveau Realisme, including the founder of the movement, the critic Pierre Restany, and Yves Klein, a leading proponent.
Nouveau Realisme was, according to Restany, "a poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality." Jacquet's earliest works, a series of Images d?Epinal (1962), reveal a preoccupation with mass-produced images, which he reduced down to abstract compositions. They also suggest a certain playfulness for which he would become known: for this series he used a palette inspired by the colours of a backgammon set, which is - not coincidentally - called le jacquet in French.
While Alain Jacquet is acknowledged as an important influence on entire generations of artists, his work remains more affordable than much American and British Pop Art. However, his status is rising, as his estate is now represented by a prominent international gallery and increasing numbers of collectors are becoming aware of his work.
Jacquet's most desirable works are undoubtedly those produced in the 1960s. The iconic images he produced during this decade have strong historical relevance and can be founding the permanent collections of museums around the world.
On 28 October, Bonhams Paris presents Le parcours d'un collectionneur: d'Alain Jacquet - Robert Combas. The sale brings together seven prominent and fresh-to-market works by Jacquet from the 1960s, including Gabrielle d'Estrees and Portrait of a Man, as well as rare images such as L'Echelle or La source (d'apres Ingres).
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