Jacques Nestlé (1907-1991)

Lot 129 - Jacques Nestlé (1907-1991)
French painter
Gouache on paper, signed with the artist's initials in the lower right corner.
Framed in solid oak.
Circa 1960
20th century
Dimensions when viewed: H: 64,5; W: 49 cm
Jacques Nestlé was born in 1907 in Saarbrücken. In 1925 he moved to Berlin where he was influenced by the Bauhaus school and the avant-garde artists of that time such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1933, he left for France and joined many artists in Paris where the revolution of modern art had already been underway since the middle of the 19th century. In Paris, Henri Matisse noticed his work, encouraged him and inspired him for a long time. Later, the art dealer and collector Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler wanted to promote him as he did with Picasso, Braque, Derain and Gris. Jacques Nestlé, who said of him that he was "neither a painter nor an artist, simply a man who paints", did not accept Kahnweiler's proposal.
Jacques Nestlé is a painter of colours and shapes, and in this he is in the same artistic line as some of his contemporaries such as Kandinsky, Mondrian or Miró. His nudes, sometimes stylized to the extreme, where the female form becomes lines and colored contours, recall the curves of Matisse's nudes or the anatomical composition of Picasso's cubist nudes.