JACQUES CARTIER
A WILDLIFE ARTIST
Jacques Cartier -
A Wildlife Artist
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By Axel Rondouin, at Sarto Editions.
This catalog raisonné is the only reference work concerning the work of the wildlife artist Jacques Cartier.
The life and achievements of the artist are presented on more than 350 pages in French and English.
This book references more than 1400 works by Jacques Cartier.
Book Summary
Jacques Cartier (1907-2001) is a French artist with a rich and varied stylistic and technical corpus, whose artistic career covered the 20th century from the 1920s onwards.
From painting to sculpture through drawing, engraving, medals or illustration, this protean and curious artist took part very early on in the most prestigious Salons of the French institutional artistic landscape (Salon des artistes français, Salon des animaliers, Salon d'Hiver, commissions for the 1937 Universal Exhibition, Salon de l'école française...).
Little-known artist despite his major role in the development of exotic animals during the Art Deco period, he exhibited during the 1940s alongside Paul Jouve, François Pompon, Jacques Nam, Roger Godchaux, Henri Valette, André Margat, Xavier de Poret ...
His life of workshop and Salons is also alternated by the realization of numerous decorative orders of the high places of the Parisian social life.
Thus, for about fifteen years, he created a succession of decorations (the Etoile swimming pool, the Lido, the Dame de Pique, the casino of Cabourg), sculptures (the White Elephant, La Roulotte, a cornice of the dome of the Institut de France), coats of arms in bas-relief for cities (Falaise, Fontainebleau), restaurant decorations (Hotel de Londres, Filet de Sole in Fontainebleau) and always paintings of animals and medals: Roquépine, Oscar RL, as well as the Napoleon for Courvoisier.
From the 1960s, he drew all the animals of the illustrated Petit Larousse, and the series Air de Chasse published by François Girand. He also illustrated novels by Maurice Genevoix (La boîte à pêche and L'écureuil du bois-bourru) as well as educational books for the Saint-Paul publishing house.
This monograph brings together more than 1400 works by Jacques Cartier, placing them in the artistic, literary, political and social context of the 20th century. The chronological approach of his work will allow the reader to appreciate the stylistic evolution as well as the diversity of the artist's corpus.