In the 1960s Jacquet shared affinities with Nouveau Réalisme in France, where he came into contact with Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. He met the key characters of the UK Pop Art scene in 1963 – Hamilton, Blake and Allen Jones, and the following year he spent time in Manhattan during the height of Pop Art where he met Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg. Towards the end of that decade Jacquet started to create works which had a conceptual edge. Not only does the present piece both refer to a further critical moment in C20th art - Duchamp’s concept of the ‘Readymade’ but also L’Arrosoir shows Jacquet’s fascination which emerged in the early 1970s with Topology. The endless surface of the watering can thus acts as an homage to both the curves of the Möbius strip, and the non-orientable shape of the Klein bottle.