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James Jarvaise 1924–2015

Le spectre et deux bouteilles

2007
oil on canvas with canvas collage 54 h × 54 w in (137 × 137 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,268
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Signed and titled to lower right ‘Le Spectre et Deux Bouteilles Jarvaise’.
provenance: Estate of the artist
literature: The James Jarvaise Catalogue Raisonné Project, Jarvaise, McCardwell and Crnkovich, no. MMC2007.001

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In the 1990s and 2000s, James Jarvaise continued to explore and refine his collage methodology using oils, cloth, and black cement on canvas. In this series, Jarvaise tests the boundaries of the picture plane, layering a dense range of abstracted patterns atop one another to illustrate a compressed space. In this work, Le spectre et deux bouteilles, Jarvaise explores the relationship with the imbibing of spirits — cognac was his favorite — and past ghosts.

Painting seems to come from an unknown source, which you’ve cultivated all your life. Your mind functions unconsciously, contributing to the work, helping to find solutions to problems which we only dimly perceive.

James Jarvaise

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