Jacques Chauvin
1978
Pen & Ink on Paper
9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in
24.1 x 31.8 cm
24.1 x 31.8 cm
Initialed; Auction stamp on back
Jacques Chauvin was a graduate of the École des Beaux Arts, moved through the most electric creative circles of 20th-century Paris — rubbing shoulders with Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Calder, and Cocteau — yet never once exhibited his work publicly, drawing and sketching purely to satisfy his own curiosity about form, motion, and spatial relationships. These pen-and-ink sketches are a window into that private world. These works interpret the human body as a problem of form, weight, and spatial logic. That these works survived and resurfaced at all is a small miracle, and owning them means owning a piece of a conversation that was never meant to leave the studio.