Jean-Théobald Jacus : Soleil mouillé, mer (Wet Sun, Sea), 1977 (Watercolour)

By JACUS  Jean-Théobald (1924–2021)

Jean-Théobald Jacus (1924–2021)
Soleil mouillé, mer , 1977
Watercolour, oil pastel (crayolor) and pencil
Dedicated and dated by hand, lower left: “Pour Yves Guérin, très amicalement, 30 Août 77”; signed lower right “Jacus”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance).

Description: A lyrical seascape — a great banded sun in oil pastel (oranges, yellows, reds, pinks and violets) rising above a blue and mauve watercolour sea touched with stippled colour, and gulls in flight drawn in fine pencil, faint penciled circles structuring the whole like sun and halo. Jean-Théobald Jacus was a French figurative painter and draughtsman, trained at the Beaux-Arts of Reims and Paris and under the Dutch master Conrad Kickert; a Gold Medal of the Salon des Artistes Français (1977, the year of this sheet), he was appointed Peintre officiel de l’Air et de l’Espace in 1987 and illustrated Boris Vian’s L’Écume des jours. His art, “from abstraction to the real,” is imbued with a dreamlike, sometimes fantastical spirit — exactly the mood here. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 200,00 € ( 227.00 USD )