Matter and Memory:
the Patriarch’s Realm

To mark the 90th birthday of Jean-François Jaeger, the gallery which now bears his name is to host an exhibition celebrating his 66 years as a gallery owner. It will look back over his career through the prism of the artists he championed, the long-running relationships he forged with art critics, institutions and numerous collectors.

Rather than simply stacking up memories from exhibitions past, “Matter and Memory: the Patriarch’s Realm” takes up the challenge of plotting the course of a long career by following the creative development of the avant-garde artists that Jean-François Jaeger promoted, as well as highlighting his precocious perceptiveness and characteristic humility, which is seen in the motto that best expresses how he lives his life, “Nothing belongs to me and I belong to everything”.

Organized by Jean-François Jaeger’s daughter, Véronique Jaeger, who took over the running of the gallery’s two Parisian exhibition spaces a few years ago, the show is both a tribute to a pioneering, talented and passionate defender of the arts and a chance to rediscover the works of the artists and movements that have marked the history of art in Paris from the post-war period to the present day.

Roger Bissière, Oiseau, 1950
Tempera on paper
16,5 × 13,4 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Jean Dubuffet, Mire G177 Boléro, 1983
Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
52,8 × 78,7 in
Hans Reichel, Composition mit blau gelbem Schein mit,1939
Watercolour on paper
9,5 × 7,5 in
Hans Reichel, Composition, 1927
Oil on cardboard
8,1 × 8,9 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Hans Reichel, Kristalle luchtendes Maerchen, 1948
Watercolor on paper
9,8 × 12,2 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Hans Reichel, L’œil cosmologique, n° 3, 1938
Watercolor on paper
7,7 × 5,1 in
Hans Reichel, Roetl Fisch im Moos, 1927
Oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard
8,7 × 12,2 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Hans Reichel, Unterwasser II, 1922
Oil on cardvoard
9,7 × 5,9 in
Nicolas de Staël, Portrait d’Anne de Staël, 1953
Oil on canvas
51,2 × 35 in
Mark Tobey, Escape from Static, 1968
Tempera on paper, mounted on pannel
26,4 × 19,1 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, Rive gauche, 1955
Tempera on paper
24 × 25,8 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, Untitled, 1961
Monotype on paper
39 × 19,7 in
Mark Tobey, Untitled, 1961
Monotype on paper
19,1 × 39 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, Space rose, 1959
Tempera on paper
15,8 × 11,8 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, White Space, 1955
Tempera on paper
8,1 × 12,4 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, White Square Surrounded, 1959
Tempera on paper
9,1 × 12,4 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Mark Tobey, World, 1960
Tempera on paper
4,9 × 6,7 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Ariane, 1988
Oil on canvas
51,2 × 38,2 in
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, La Basilique, 1964
Tempera on canvas
76,8 × 51,2 in
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, La Scala ou les yeux, 1937
Oil on canvas
23,6 × 36,2 in
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Mémoire, 1966
Oil on canvas
44,9 × 57,5 in
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, La Gare St Lazare, 1949
Oil on canvas
23,6 × 28,7 in
Jean Amado, Le Doute et la Pierre,1960
Red basalt sand
131,9 × 74,8 × 48 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Jean-Paul Philippe, Marelle, 2013
Clay, miroir, lead and Corten steel
124,8 × 114,2 in
Photograph by Giancarlo Cinni
Gérard Singer, Canyoneaustrate, 1986
Beton
22,4 × 31,5 in
Fermín Aguayo, Infante Margarita en rose, 1960-1961
Oil on canvas
76,8 × 51,2 in
Photograph by D.Bordes
Wilfrid Moser, Cageots de la Méduse, 1976
Oil on canvas
31,9 × 47,2 in
Louis Nallard, La rose de Kairouan, 1972
OIl on canvas
47,2 × 53,2 in
Jean Jacques Ceccarelli, Philtre (c) (4 feuilles), 1998
Watercolour, walnut stain, collage and red chalk on paper
34,5 × 23,4 in
Gérard Fromanger, Florence rue d’Orchampt, 1975
Oil on canvas
51,1 × 38,1 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Asger Jorn, Untitled, 1946-1947
Oil on hardboard
22,8 × 20,9 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Louis Le Brocquy, Head with open Mouth, 1975
Oil on canvas
17,9 × 14,8 in
Arthur-Luiz Piza, Terre Mère, 1964
Oil, sand and paper on canvas
39,4 × 31,5 in
Kunihiko Moriguchi, Blanc 03, 1986
Yuzen on paper
36 × 64,7 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Kunihiko Moriguchi, Vert 5, 1989
Yuzen on paper
30,8 × 34,1 in
Photograph by Jean-Louis Losi
Yamamoto Wakako, Disque origine, 1991
Oil, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
51,2 × 38,2 in
Yang Jiechang, Vast Square, 1992
Ink on paper mounted on canvas
82,7 × 68,9 in
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Abakan Lady, 1970-1980
Natural fibre
118,1 × 110,2 in
Louise Nevelson, Shadow and Reflection I, 1966
Black wood
107,9 × 170,5 × 25,6 in
Dani Karavan, Model of the Axe Majeur, 1988
Resin and blue thread
82,1 × 16,3 × 2,6 in

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