Alain JACQUET (After) - Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, c. 1970 - Composition of 9 small silkscreens

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Alain Jacquet : (1939-2008) is a french painter who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939 and who died in New York in 2008. He lived and worked in Paris and New York. Alain Jacquet is part of the movement of the Nouvelle figuration or Figuration narrative. After a first period, circa 1961, characterized by oil paintings which surfaces are organised by large stains of bright colours, his works goes towards "camouflages" (1962-63). He was mainly renowned in the field of Mec-Art, being one of his main representative. He would appropriate images, and made mecanic paintings which would let the grid of the serigraphy appear. Classical works, such as the Birth of Venus in 1961, or the Luncheon on the grass in 1964, are made up to look liked advertisement images. Starting from 1967, Jacquet started making braille sculptures. The dot became a genesis entity. From 1978, he made paintings with computers. In 1992, he married Sophie Matisse, great daughter of Henri Matisse, with whom he had one daughter, Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse, born in 1993.