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OIL ON CANVAS AND COLLAGE CIRCA60 65X81CM......A little pop wink!!
On November 22, 1954, he had his first exhibition at the Galerie du Passeur in Paris and achieved unexpected success. He met the painters who would influence his work: Pablo Picasso, Jacques Villon, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Serge Poliakoff, Édouard Pignon, Jean Bazaine, Roberto Matta. He frequented the Beaune gallery run by Suzanne de Coninck. There he met Xavier Longobardi and read a leaflet on Nicolas de Staël whom he visited.
From 1955 to 1958, he painted and exhibited in numerous Parisian galleries he was under contract with André Weil and he came into contact with the American collector Nathan Cummings who bought several hundred works from him over ten years.
In painting, he uses acrylic as much as oil, projections on reserve as much as brush painting in the style of Rubens, collages. He uses these techniques in a wide variety of productive ways: landscapes, portraits and self-portraits. He devoted himself for long periods to themes of pictorial or musical inspiration. Women and the flesh occupy a preponderant place.
Color dominates his painting with all its force, conveyed by a rich and vibrant material.
Throughout his career as a painter, sculptor and engraver, Jouffroy was convinced of the importance of painting and the need to make it, show it and explain its role.
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