Paris sketchbook / Robert Jacks

PXD 1624

fonds

1989

Graphic Materials, Prints

9661624

8 prints (1 box) - sheets 76 x 56 cm, in box 78 x 58 cm - intaglio and relief etchings, using black ink

Robert Jacks AO (1943-2014) was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading abstract artists. He studied at the Prahran Technical College and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, focusing first on sculpture and then painting and printmaking. The artist travelled to Canada and New York in the 1960s, then in 1978 became artist-in-residence at the University of Melbourne before moving to Sydney, where he taught at Sydney's College of the Arts. He returned to Melbourne in 1983 as artist in residence at his former college of Prahran where he taught until 1988. Jacks took his family to Cornwall for six months in 1988 where he taught at the Falmouth School of Art. In 1989, he purchased a property in Harcourt in rural Victoria, which finally became his permanent home and studio. Robert Jacks died in 2014.

References:
The Artist's books of Robert Jacks / essay and catalogue by Peter Anderson. Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009.

Design and Art Australia Online. "Robert Jacks", https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-jacks-1/personal_details/ ( Accessed 10 July 2023)

A portfolio artists' book of eight individually titled etchings (image size, 33 x 43 cm) presented in a solander box with title label.

Frontispiece:
Robert Jacks, Paris sketchbook, 1989. Eight etchings and one fronttispiece [ie. frontispiece] in Edition of nine. Printed at the Sydney print studio by Diana Davidson and Peter Stevens on Arches 280 gms [ie. gsm]

I. Accross the channel [ie. Across the channel]
Numbered 6/9

II. Oyster shells
Numbered 9/9

III. Picasso's women
Numbered 9/9

IV. Picasso's friends
Numbered 9/9

V. Garfield contemplates cubism
Numbered 9/9

VI. Sheets of Paris
Numbered 6/9

VII. Trees, shields and skulls
Numbered 9/9

[VII. Reflections in the channel] - not available

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Title from cover of box.

Etching titled "VIII. Reflections in the channel" is not available.
The images in this collection are based on sketches completed during the time Jacks lived in Cornwall in 1988. A key inspiration was a trip to Paris to visit an exhibition on the works of Picasso.

Reference:
The Artist's books of Robert Jacks / essay and catalogue by Peter Anderson. Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009.

Sydney : Robert Jacks and Sydney Print Studio, 1989

All prints signed and dated by artist.

Each sheet imprinted lower right: "Sydney Print Studio" logo; watermark lower left "BFK Rives France"