(born in Paris in 1924)
M. 1967, titled, signed and dated on the reverse Monory 1968, inscribed with no 299/2, oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm, framed, (PP)

Provenance:
Private Collection, Austria - acquired directly from the artist in 1968

Published in:
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Monory, Maeght éditeur, Paris 1974, unpaginated Pierre Tilman, Monory, Editions Fréderic Loeb, Paris, 1992, page 188
Pascale le Thorel, Jacques Monory, Editions Paris-Musées, 2006, with ill. page 78

Jacques Monory ‘became one of the principal representatives of the French figuration narrative movement, which, in the Sixties, was opposed to geometrical, kinetic or abstract expressionist painting and sympathetic to the art of the New Realism movement. His canvases suggest heavy atmospheres while pulling subject matter from modern civilization, often using silkscreen processes that borrow from photographic and cinematographic sources, and a reliance on monochrome color.’ (Text: Ro Gallery, New York) He mostly paints by series: Meurtres, Femmes, Jardinage, Operas Glacés, Technicolor, Galaxies, Catastrophes,... Monory finds his inspiration from photographs which he takes himself or cuts out from newspapers or images captured of television. He juxtaposes these photographs to create images that are both realistic in their representation and strange in their set up. (sales.arte.tv, 22.10.2015)