Jacques Poirier

Who was Jacques Poirier?

Jacques Poirier was a French master painter who lived in Paris near Saint-Germain-des-Prés. His mother was a painter so he claimed with irony that he always sniffed turpentine between breastfeeds. He joined the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1945. Poirier came to painting quite late after a successful career as an illustrator. His paintings were done in the realist "Trompe l'Oeil" style with a mastery and a poetry rarely seen in this genre. He became a member of "Trompe l'Oeil and Reality", the group of realist painters created by Henri Cadiou Henri Cadiou. His good friend Pierre Gilou fr:Pierre Gilou shared in a comment how Poirier was quickly accepted in the group back in 1970.