Jacques Boeri (1929-2004) - Le reflet

Jacques Boeri (1929-2004)
The Reflection
Original watercolor painting by artist Jacques BOÉRI, which will uniquely and originally personalize the interiors of art lovers.
Watercolor on cardboard paper.
Dimensions 88 cm by 69 cm

Jacques BOÉRI was born in ASNIÈRES in 1929 in a house on rue Émile Zola that adjoined the one where he would live later and which would serve as his studio until the end of his days.
It was in a theater decoration workshop that he learned to paint, while also taking Art History classes at the Louvre School.
Immediately after this training, he decided to devote his life to painting.
His thirst for discovery, curiosity, his desire to enrich himself with other cultures and his need to rediscover the pictorial techniques of the old masters led him to travel the world. He began with Northern Europe to absorb the techniques of Rembrandt and Vermeer.
In 1953, he met Nadine Véfour on a beach in Antibes. She was sixteen, finishing high school. They fell remarkably in love and became inseparable. This encounter, rather banal, transformed the lives of the two people.
She gave up the piano studies she had pursued to devote herself, too, to painting. She accompanied him to the Louvre rooms to copy the old masters.
They married two years later.
Jacques shared with Nadine his thirst to roam the world. They set off for Nordkapp, Algeria, Afghanistan and Central America. They were deeply struck by the latter destination.
In the 1960s–1970s, he joined the Society of French Artists.
In 1970, during a collective exhibition of French Artists in New York, he was spotted by the Jean Mary gallery, then located on Third Avenue.
Immediately it exhibited him on its walls. The success was immediate. Jean Mary would become his reference gallery.
Each year the art dealer would come to the workshop in Asnières to buy works that he exhibited in New York.