Jacques Cartier -
A wildlife artist
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By Axel Rondouin, published by Éditions Sarto.
This catalogue raisonné is the only reference work on the work of animal artist Jacques Cartier.
The artist's life and achievements are presented in over 350 pages in French and English.
This work references over 1,400 works by Jacques Cartier..
Summary of the book
Jacques Cartier (1907–2001) was a French artist with a rich and varied stylistic and technical repertoire, whose artistic career spanned the 20th century from the 1920s onwards.
From painting to sculpture, drawing, printmaking, medal making and illustration, this versatile and curious artist participated very early on in the most prestigious salons of the French artistic institutional landscape (Salon des Artistes Français, Salon des Animaliers, Salon d'Hiver, commissions for the 1937 World's Fair, Salon de l'École Française, etc.).
An artist who remained relatively unknown despite his major role in the rise of animal exoticism 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, and others.
His life in the studio and at art salons was also punctuated by numerous decorative commissions for the high society venues of Parisian life.
Thus, for some fifteen years, he produced a succession of decorative works (the Etoile swimming pool, the Lido, the Dame de Pique, the Cabourg casino), sculptures (the White Elephant, La Roulotte, a cornice for the dome of the Institut de France), bas-relief coats of arms for towns (Falaise, Fontainebleau), restaurant decorations (Hôtel de Londres, Filet de Sole in Fontainebleau) and, as always, paintings of animals and medals: Roquépine, Oscar RL, as well as Napoleon for Courvoisier.
From the 1960s onwards, he drew all the animals for the Petit Larousse illustré and the Air de Chasse series 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 Saint-Paul publishers.
This monograph brings together more than 1,400 works by Jacques Cartier, placing them in the artistic, literary, political and social context of the 20th century. The chronological approach to his work allows the reader to appreciate the stylistic evolution and diversity of the artist's body of work.