Allen Jones
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Selected Works
Allen Jones
Enchanteresse, 2006
Mixed media
187 x 42 x 55 cm
Signed and numbered from an edition of 8 copies + 4 EA
Allen Jones
The singer not the song, 2002
Oil on canvas
305 x 183 cm
Signed at the back
Allen Jones
Balancing Act, 1994
Aquarelle sur papier
76 x 37 cm
Signée et datée en bas à droite
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Allen Jones
Femme Taxi, vers 1990
240 x 250 x 70 cm,
Signé et numéroté
Fondeur Bocquel
Some of the works depicted are no longer available.
Biography
Allen Jones is a painter, sculptor and lithographer fascinated by the erotic imagery of specialized magazines from which he draws his vocabulary to create a pin-up figure transformed into furniture and presented in an ambiguous, erotic and fantasized mode.
After his studies at the Royal College of Art in London with the young artists of his generation, Derek Boshier, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Peter Philips and the American R.B. Kitaj, in 1960 he became one of the important members of Pop Art initiated in England by the research of his predecessors, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and Edouardo Paolozzi.
From the 1960s, Allen Jones already enjoyed a strong international reputation as a painter, sculptor and lithographer.
He stands out from his peers by his fascination with the erotic imagery of the specialized magazines from which he draws his vocabulary.
From the 1980s, Allen Jones created a series of paintings on the theme of the artist and his muse which would subsequently be constantly revisited in his work. Pianists and dancers, couples of magicians or tango dancers, are the protagonists of erotic and allegorical scenes, which are all variations on the creative act.