Jean-Luc Verna (1966) - Paramour





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Jean-Luc Verna, Paramour, 2018, a sérigraphie on copper (32 × 32 cm), edition limitée of 30, signed by hand and numbered /30, framed, from France sold by Galerie, in good condition.
Description from the seller
Work currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Jean-Luc Verna & Sandrine Pelletier, "Rêver Platine" from September 6, 2026 to January 3, 2027.
Sharing artistic experiences is the aim of Anaïd Demir and Stephen Joannon. She is an art critic and curator for over 20 years, he is a music critic, gallery owner and epicurean above all. The duo, who met in the 1990s, now bets on marrying art with haute cuisine through a new project called “Un chef, une œuvre.” The idea? About ten guests gather at a chef’s table around a menu designed in dialogue with the work of a contemporary artist. For this first edition, artist Jean-Luc Verna set up at Chef Théophile Playoust’s table, surrounded by collector guests, art-literate enthusiasts and above all gourmets. On this occasion, Jean-Luc Verna presented his work “Paramour,” a copper silkscreen that guests could purchase at a preferential price…
Paramour
Silkscreen on Copper
32 x 32 cm
Edition of 30
2018
Signed with a metal nib on the right.
Numbered on the left
Copper is a material that evolves; no work is identical and copper will continue to evolve over time.
Photo credit Say Who
Jean-Luc Verna
Jean-Luc Verna and his husband Jules Ours
Gabrielle Lazure and Jean-Luc Verna
PRESENTATION of Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière
Born in 1966, in Nice, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Presentation
“At Verna, drawing is a spinal column that keeps everything else upright: photography, cinema, music, tattoo, mask, facial expression, and gaze. It is in the precisely elaborated gesture of drawing that he has found a complex form, arising from a process of folding memory and surfacing of the present. For him, drawing is a teaching, a continuous training of which he is both pupil and master. For Verna is an exemplary pedagogue, convinced that academicism is an uncharted belt of transmission, a form of subversion. In his work, drawing undergoes extremely sophisticated processes of copying and movement: from paper, it first goes to tracing, then to photocopying, where it is enlarged and somewhat degraded. This photocopy is then rubbed with trichloroethylene to be transferred onto walls, old papers, or fabrics, before being redrawn with black charcoal, colored pencil, and kohl eyeliner, sometimes with ornamentation elements added – black stones, rhinestones, feathers, garlands."
- Stéphanie Moisdon, Roches Noires
Jean Luc Verna benefited from a solo exhibition at MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine in 2016 and more recently at the Fondation Salomon in Annecy. His drawings have been shown as part of the Guerlain donation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; as well as during the 1984-1999 The Decade exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2014. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions (Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels; MuCEM, Marseille; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Forde, Geneva; Villa Arson, Nice; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Mac/Val, etc.). His works are present in prestigious collections such as MoMA, NY; The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Flourtown; RAM Foundation, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Mac/Val; Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse; and numerous Fonds Régionaux d’Art Contemporain.
A reference monograph is available in the Création contemporaine collection, co-published Flammarion/CNAP, as well as a catalog published by MAC/VAL.
Collections
Artothèque de Villeurbanne, France
Artothèque de Pessac, France
Artothèque d'Auxerre, France
Artothèque de Strasbourg, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
MacVal, Vitry sur Seine, France
MoMA, New York, United States
François Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Collection Famille Moulin, Paris, France
Collection Fellner, Klagenfurt, Austria
Collection Lewis, Los Angeles, United States
Espace arts plastiques Venissieux, France
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
FRAC Pays de La Loire, Carquefou, France
FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville Les Rouen, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Fonds d'art contemporain, état de Genève, Switzerland
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Le Vent des Forêts, Fresnes-au-Mont, France
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée d’Art contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings, New York, United States
Ville de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Pop Dream Gallery is an active entity that operates as a dealer, curator, and gallerist. We primarily focus on the secondary market to present our artists, but we also work with private collectors to help evolve their collection. We sell some of their works to acquire new pieces more in line with the evolution of the times. You can follow us on Instagram, popdreamgallery.
Each of our works is signed and accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Pop Dream Gallery.
Our delivery charges are calculated in line with those of an art gallery.
Work currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Jean-Luc Verna & Sandrine Pelletier, "Rêver Platine" from September 6, 2026 to January 3, 2027.
Sharing artistic experiences is the aim of Anaïd Demir and Stephen Joannon. She is an art critic and curator for over 20 years, he is a music critic, gallery owner and epicurean above all. The duo, who met in the 1990s, now bets on marrying art with haute cuisine through a new project called “Un chef, une œuvre.” The idea? About ten guests gather at a chef’s table around a menu designed in dialogue with the work of a contemporary artist. For this first edition, artist Jean-Luc Verna set up at Chef Théophile Playoust’s table, surrounded by collector guests, art-literate enthusiasts and above all gourmets. On this occasion, Jean-Luc Verna presented his work “Paramour,” a copper silkscreen that guests could purchase at a preferential price…
Paramour
Silkscreen on Copper
32 x 32 cm
Edition of 30
2018
Signed with a metal nib on the right.
Numbered on the left
Copper is a material that evolves; no work is identical and copper will continue to evolve over time.
Photo credit Say Who
Jean-Luc Verna
Jean-Luc Verna and his husband Jules Ours
Gabrielle Lazure and Jean-Luc Verna
PRESENTATION of Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière
Born in 1966, in Nice, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Presentation
“At Verna, drawing is a spinal column that keeps everything else upright: photography, cinema, music, tattoo, mask, facial expression, and gaze. It is in the precisely elaborated gesture of drawing that he has found a complex form, arising from a process of folding memory and surfacing of the present. For him, drawing is a teaching, a continuous training of which he is both pupil and master. For Verna is an exemplary pedagogue, convinced that academicism is an uncharted belt of transmission, a form of subversion. In his work, drawing undergoes extremely sophisticated processes of copying and movement: from paper, it first goes to tracing, then to photocopying, where it is enlarged and somewhat degraded. This photocopy is then rubbed with trichloroethylene to be transferred onto walls, old papers, or fabrics, before being redrawn with black charcoal, colored pencil, and kohl eyeliner, sometimes with ornamentation elements added – black stones, rhinestones, feathers, garlands."
- Stéphanie Moisdon, Roches Noires
Jean Luc Verna benefited from a solo exhibition at MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine in 2016 and more recently at the Fondation Salomon in Annecy. His drawings have been shown as part of the Guerlain donation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; as well as during the 1984-1999 The Decade exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2014. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions (Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels; MuCEM, Marseille; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Forde, Geneva; Villa Arson, Nice; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Mac/Val, etc.). His works are present in prestigious collections such as MoMA, NY; The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Flourtown; RAM Foundation, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Mac/Val; Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse; and numerous Fonds Régionaux d’Art Contemporain.
A reference monograph is available in the Création contemporaine collection, co-published Flammarion/CNAP, as well as a catalog published by MAC/VAL.
Collections
Artothèque de Villeurbanne, France
Artothèque de Pessac, France
Artothèque d'Auxerre, France
Artothèque de Strasbourg, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
MacVal, Vitry sur Seine, France
MoMA, New York, United States
François Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Collection Famille Moulin, Paris, France
Collection Fellner, Klagenfurt, Austria
Collection Lewis, Los Angeles, United States
Espace arts plastiques Venissieux, France
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
FRAC Pays de La Loire, Carquefou, France
FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville Les Rouen, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Fonds d'art contemporain, état de Genève, Switzerland
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Le Vent des Forêts, Fresnes-au-Mont, France
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée d’Art contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings, New York, United States
Ville de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Pop Dream Gallery is an active entity that operates as a dealer, curator, and gallerist. We primarily focus on the secondary market to present our artists, but we also work with private collectors to help evolve their collection. We sell some of their works to acquire new pieces more in line with the evolution of the times. You can follow us on Instagram, popdreamgallery.
Each of our works is signed and accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Pop Dream Gallery.
Our delivery charges are calculated in line with those of an art gallery.

