Sécheret, Jean-Baptiste, Oval Composition 1, 1992

“He likes to quote Ingres: “Resemblance is the least of things”. He learned this at the age of twenty at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He makes a point of mastering it. It’s the humble, formidable objects – all objects are formidable – that he reproduces, by every means possible, in his studio: funnels, marbled cones from the South Seas, cut-off fish heads”.

Preface to the catalog ofŒuvre Gravé Et Lithographié 2002-2014 written by Pierre Bergounioux.

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