Jacques Duval-Brasseur
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a coffee table, France, 1970s.
Base in the shape of branches in cast bronze, glass top, signed JD Brasseur. Height 55 cm, top dimensions 130 x 80 cm.
Later glass top. Minor wear.
Provenance
A Swedish family living in Switzerland, reportedly acquired ca 1977-79.
Thence by decent within the family.
Designer
Jacques Duval-Brasseur studied at the Cherbourg School of Fine Arts. These courses confirmed his longing to work as an artist, a feeling he had since childhood. Part of his early years was spent in Algiers, but Duval-Brasseur left his family in Algeria at the age of seventeen and returned to France.
In the 1960s, he began to work with materials salvaged from various types of scrap dealers, and he went on to create his first abstract sculptures in sheet metal from car bodies, as well as his first insects.
In 1966, a French gallery commissioned four large abstract sculptures from him, which marked the beginning of his career.
President Giscard d'Estaing commissioned a bucranium (a sculpted decorative motif representing an ox head) in polished bronze and plexiglass horns for the small salon in the Élysée Palace in Paris.
Various animals and naturalistic motifs were the main themes in Jacques Duval-Brasseur's diverse works. His artistic production was versatile, ranging from furniture, floor lamps, table lamps, and small objects of various kinds.