Mixed media painting by Danielle Jacqui

Frame: 23 1/2" x 20 3/4"
Painting: 16 3/4" x 14 1/4"

Danielle Jacqui
(Source: outsiderartnow.com) Danielle Jacqui was born in 1934 in Nice, to a jeweler father and a militant communist mother. The early 1970s were a founding period for Jacqui. She met Claude Leclercq, her second husband, who became a close companion in her artistic career until his death in 2000. A fellow brocanteur and a man with a rich personal history, Claude shared with Jacqui, a ‘state of complementarity and mutual enrichment’. The period from 1973 onwards marked Jacqui’s participation in the first of what was to become a long line of both group and solo exhibitions. Since then, her work has been shown in France, Japan, Switzerland (including at the Collection of Art Brut, Lausanne) and the United States (Love: Error and Eros at the Museum of American Visionary Art, 1998).

Established in Pont de lEtoile in her somewhat surprising home, which serves as studio, museum and living space, Jacqui, painter and ceramic artist arouses everyone’s curiosity. Brightly colored ceramics, sculptures, self-portraits, mosaics, embroidery, bas-relief dolls and animals… Her many creations invade every room of her house, from the kitchen to living room, and even cover the facade. Here, the place is jam-packed with every square meter crammed with one of her sculptures. Open to the public, the home of Danielle Jacqui (known locally as celle qui peint--she who paints) offers visitors a unique and intriguing journey.She had founded the Festival d’art singuler in Aubagne.

Good condition overall; some pieces of painting border missing