Jacquet, Alain

Nationality: French

Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Though he studied architecture at École des Beaux-Arts as a painter he was an autodidact. He was a French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement. Camouflage Botticelli (Birt of Venus) (1963-64) is a famous work of his. In a series of camouflage paintings, he often used motifs from older, very famous paintings, such as in this case from the painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Jacquet also borrowed the form of Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass, which itself had referred to the 1515 engraving The Judgment of Paris by Raimondi.

Jacquet lived in New York and Paris and taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He was married (1992) to Sophie Matisse, great-granddaughter of the French Fauvist artist Henri Matisse. Jacguet died of esophageal cancer in Manhattan