Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died. He was 69. Jacquet’s work often reflected the sensibilities of pop art, which emerged in Britain and the United States in the 1950s and ’60s and drew on advertising, comics and other pieces of popular culture.
He also revisited well known artworks from previous eras. One of his best-known paintings recasts the impressionist giant Edouard Manet’s “Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” (shown above), which depicts a female nude picnicking with two fully clothed men. In Jacquet’s version, they are replaced by a gallery owner, an art critic and a painter.
