Jacques Boeri (1929-2004) - Réflexion mystique

Jacques Boeri (1929-2004)
Mystic Reflection
Original drawing in watercolor and charcoal by the artist Jacques BOÉRI, who will uniquely and originally personalize the interiors of art lovers.
Watercolor on heavy drawing paper.
size 36 cm by 42 cm
small tear in the paper at the bottom left visible in the photo
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 set workshop that he learned to paint, while also attending the Art History courses at the Louvre School.
Immediately after this training, he decided to devote his life to painting.
His thirst for discovery, his curiosity, his desire to learn from other cultures and his need to recover the pictorial technique of the old masters compelled 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 Antibes beach. She was sixteen, finishing high school. They fell extraordinarily in love and became inseparable. This encounter, rather banal, transformed the lives of the two beings.
She abandoned the piano studies she had pursued to devote herself, too, to painting. She followed him into the Louvre rooms to copy the old masters.
They married two years later.
Jacques shared with Nadine his thirst to travel the world. They went to North Cape, Algeria, Afghanistan and Central America. They were enthralled by the latter destination.
In the 1960s-1970s, he joined the Society of French Artists.
In 1970, during a joint exhibition of French Artists in New York, he was spotted by the Jean Mary gallery, then located on Third Avenue.
Immediately the gallery displayed him on its walls. The success was immediate. Jean Mary would become his gallery of reference.
Each year the art dealer would come to the Asnières studio to buy works that he exhibited in New York.