L’aube, 1992

Jacques Coquillay  

Bronze, signed and numbered
Catalog raisonné reference G151

Jacques Coquillay was born on June 3, 1935 in the Loire Valley. He became passionate about drawing from the age of ten, a passion which he continued during his schooling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tours and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the end of his studies, at the end of which he obtained the National Diploma in Sculpture and a Higher Diploma in Plastic Arts, he specialized in two very different techniques: pastel and sculpture. He subsequently met Jean Carton, Georges Hilbert and Raimond Martin with whom he formed a group of young sculptors under the expert eye of Paul Belmondo.
For his works, Jacques Coquillay has received numerous awards. In 1965, he won the Oise general council prize, and in 1970, the Signature prize. A gold medal in sculpture was awarded to him by the Society of French Artists. In 1980, he received the Edouard-Marcel Sandoz prize from the Taylor Foundation and a gold medal in painting from the Society of French Artists. The Academy of Fine Arts awarded him the Raphaël Leygues Prize in 1981. He was elected vice-president of the Society of French Artists in 1983, a position he held until 1991. He received the Jehan des Vignes Prize in 1993. -Reds awarded by the Academy of Versailles. 1995, the National Navy promoted him to official painter of the Navy.
His works have also entered museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, the Fontainebleau Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Lambinet Museum in Versailles. A retrospective of his work took place in 1992 at the Salon d'Automne and his works, exhibited in the USA and Europe, achieved international notoriety.