Jacques Carelman (1929 - 2012) Chair And Guitar

Jacques Carelman (1929 - 2012) Chair and guitar, c.1959, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, signed on the back, Modern frame.

Jacques Carelman is a French painter, theater designer and illustrator. He arrived in Paris in 1956 and devoted himself to various artistic activities (theatrical decoration, book illustration, painting and sculpture). He then produced a series of postcubist paintings to which our painting "Chair and guitar" belongs. In 1966, he adapted Raymond Queneau's novel "Zazie dans le métro" into a comic strip. He is the author of the famous poster of May 68 representing the black silhouette of a CRS brandishing a truncheon. Above all, we owe Carelman a parody of the "Manufrance" catalog, the "Catalogue of Introuvable Objects" (1969), translated into 19 languages. He had some of the objects in his catalog produced and exhibited them (from November 1974 to January 1975), in Marseille, at the Vieille Charité. In 1972, he published a second catalogue, the "Catalogue of untraceable postage stamps". It was on his initiative that the artistic movement Oupeinpo (Workshop of potential painting) was (re)founded in 1980.