Jacques Nestlé (1907-1991)

Lot 159 - 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 at sight: 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 follow Kahnweiler's proposal.
Jacques Nestlé is the painter of colors and forms, in that he is in the same artistic line as some of his contemporaries like Kandinsky, Mondrian or Miró. His nudes, sometimes stylized to the extreme, where the female forms become lines and colored contours recall the curves of Matisse's nudes or the anatomical composition of Picasso's cubist nudes.