Alain Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet (* February 22, 1939 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, France, † September 4, 2008 in New York City, USA ) was a French painter and printmaker and an important representative of the American Pop Art movement.

Life and work

Alain Jacquet studied architecture at the University of Grenoble and at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. As a painter he was an autodidact. He had his first solo exhibition in 1961 at Galerie Breteau in Paris. In 1961 ar participated in the Paris Biennial, again in 1965, where he was also represented at the Biennale of San Marino. In 1968, he was with 10 graphic pop art works participants at the documenta 4 in Kassel. It was the early 1960s, co-founder of the art movement Mec'art (Mechanical type ).

Jacquet lived in New York City and Paris and taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He was married to Sophie Matisse, great-granddaughter of the French painter Henri Matisse. Jacquet died in 2008 of esophageal cancer in Manhattan.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog for Documenta IV: IV documentation. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: ( painting and sculpture ); Volume 2: (graphics / objects ); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / stem, Karin: documenta IV International Exhibition 1968 - A photographic reconstruction ( Series of the documenta - Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9