French painter, illustrator and engraver Jean-Baptiste Secheret obtained an art degree at Beaux-Arts de Paris before spending two years at Casa de Velazquez in Madrid, from 1984 to 1986, as part of an artist’s residency.
His work, whether engraved, painted or drawn, have been regularly exhibited at galleries, museums and art fairs globally and all over France since 1980, with a retrospective of his engravings and lithographs presented at two French museums, the Centre culturel de l’Arsenal in and Maubeuge and the Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe in Gravelines, in 2001. These works were catalogued in Jean-Baptiste Sécheret, Engraved and Lithographed Work, 1979-2001, a book with a preface written by art historian Jacques Thuillier and art collector Roland Plumart.
Secheret lives and works mainly in Paris, where he devotes himself to painting, printing and educating – he is a professor of arts and techniques of representation at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville.
The National Library of France owns dozens of his prints produced from 1990 to 2004. His works are also in the collections of the Musée Goya and the Musée Normandie, both in France, the Guangda Art Museum in Hangzhou, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
