Catalogue Imaginaire by Martin Jarrie

This is an illustrated version of Argentine writer Alberto Manguel's quote: “The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself." 

Catalogue Imaginaire by Martin Jarrie. Size: LARGE 12 x 16 inches (30,3 x 40,5 cm.) Giclée print of an original in acrylic on paper. This limited edition print is printed on artist-quality pigment- and acid-free cotton paper and comes unframed (framing option available separately) Each print in this series of 25, comes umbered and signed by the artist with the date of printing. While all prints come unframed, they all fit standard frame and pre-cut mat sizes (read: you won’t ever need to pay for pricey custom framing). 

Categories: Acrylic. French Artist.

Painter and illustrator, Martin Jarrie has lived and worked in Paris since 1981. After passing through the documentary drawing or hyperrealist, he changed his style to a freer expression, more pictorial influenced by surrealism, the Italian primitives, Art brut, and contemporary art. He worked for the press, publishing, and advertising in France and the United States (since 1996). 
In the French press, you can see his work in Télérama, Le Monde, Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur, and La Vie the American press, the New Yorker, and Bloomberg Magazine among others. 
His illustrations have received numerous awards from Communication Arts 
and the Society of Illustrators. In the ad, Jarrie worked for the BNP, La Poste, Cetelem, Scholtes, Heidsieck, the Ile de France (he designed the poster for the Environmental Film Festival in 2001), and the short film festival in Clermont Ferrand which he designed the poster in 2009. His passion for dictionaries and catalogs has led him to perform "the fabulous alphabet" (winner of the most beautiful french books 2007) released in October 2007 by Gallimard. 
Before that, was published in 2004 by (and with) Alain Serres, a cookbook inspired by his paintings of fruits and vegetables, "a large kitchen like a garden," at Rue du Monde. 
He received the 1997 grand prize of the Biennale international Bratislava illustration for two albums, "the mechanical colossus" and "knock, knock, sir Cric-Crac! "Both were published by Nathan.