Alain JACQUET (1939-2008). "Image d'Epinal (Le temple chinois)", 1961-62. Canvas signed, titled and dated lower right, countersigned, titled and dated on the back (restorations). Height : 192 cm 192 cm - Width 225 cm Accompanied by : - Certificate signed by Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse and Sophie Matisse, registered under number AJ-IE-TC-61-62 in the artist's archives. - Handwritten certificate by Denise Breteau dated April 21, 1969. - Loan documents from the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris dated February 15, 1978. - Catalogs for the exhibitions "Donut flight 6078" and "Guggenheim Award 1964". Provenance : - Galerie Denise Breteau ; - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Exhibitions : - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Donut flight 6078", April 27 - June 11, 1978. Reproduced on page 4 of the exhibition catalog. - Musée Solomon R. Guggenheim New-York, "Guggenheim Award 1964", January 15 - April 5, 1964. Reproduced as number 27 in the exhibition catalog. Note: The title of the Camouflages, Images d'Épinal series, begun in 1962, reminds us that they were originally inspired by the small illuminated engravings popularized by peddlers in the 19th century. Jacquet takes up these images and covers the subjects with abstract forms shapes and shimmering colorful interlacing, reminiscent of military camouflage. His first camouflages refer to the non finito of Renaissance masterpieces, while at the same time drawing on popular iconography. This recycling of art-historical images prefigures his great work Déjeuner sur l'herbe of 1964. A major exhibition of this series has been organized by Galerie Daniel Varenne in Geneva, Galerie Georges Philippe Nathalie Vallois and Galerie Perrotin in Paris.