Erró

Erró (born 1932 in Iceland) Léger, 2005 Medium: Lithograph on paper Dimensions: 46 x 61 cm Edition of 120: Hand-signed and numbered Condition: Excellent

A travers.Portfolio with 14 silkscreens. Publisher GKM. Unframed. Edition of 200 ex. Signed, dated and numbered. Free shipment worldwide. “I paint because painting is a private Utopia,” Erró writes of his art. The landscapes in Erró’s work are a constantly changing kaleidoscope of images, multivalent and mysterious, not infrequently controversial, bursting with life – and titillating, too! There is room in his pictures for both paradise and visions of fear. Erró is the alias of Gudmundur Gudmundsson, born on 19 July 1932 in Olafsvik, in north-western Iceland. Since Gudmundur first became enthralled by pictures of works of art in a catalogue from the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the tender age of ten, painting has been his passion and his mission in life. He was accepted into art school in Reykjavik as a 19-year old, subsequently complementing what he had learned there with further studies in Oslo. Erró travelled extensively in Spain, Italy, France and Germany in the 1950s, studying at the Florence Academy of Art in 1954 and at the School of Byzantine Mosaic Art in Ravenna in 1955. It was around this time that he began to exhibit his works, first and foremost in Paris, where he chose to make his home in 1958. During the 1960s he established contact with the Swedish museum director Pontus Hultén, who encouraged him and took him under his wing. Over the years Erró has taken part in hundreds of exhibitions and today his works are on show in museums all over the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Erró’s pictorial world is peopled by comic-strip characters and autocratic despots alike. Donald Duck with his Daisy, Chip & Dale, and other Walt Disney creations are unselfconsciously juxtaposed with Greek gods and madonnas. Elsewhere the German dictator Adolf Hitler stands shoulder to shoulder with his Iraqi counterpart Saddam Hussein...

Mao’s World Tour - Jerusalem Erró, Icelandic (1932) Date: 1975 Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 99/150 Size: 31.25 x 23.5 in. (79.38 x 59.69 cm)

Gudmundur Gudmundsson, aka Erró (Icelandic, b. 1932) Are you ready, 2016 Medium: Pigment print Dimensions: 115 x 111 cm Edition of 60 + 35 EA: Hand-signed and numbered Condition: Exc...

Gudmundur Gudmundsson, aka Erró (Icelandic, b. 1932) Elvis, 2005 Medium: Lithograph on paper Dimensions: 44.5 x 61 cm Edition of 180: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil Condition: Ex...

Gudmundur Gudmundsson, aka Erró (Icelandic, b. 1932) Marilyn, 2005 Medium: Lithograph on paper Dimensions: 58.4 x 80 cm Edition of 180: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil Condition: ...

Gudmundur Gudmundsson, aka Erró (Icelandic, b. 1932) Vermeer, 2005 Medium: Lithograph on paper Dimensions: 58.4 × 80 cm Edition of 180: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil Condition: ...

Erró (born 1932 in Iceland) Les grands enfants de Mao (The Grandchildren of Mao), 2007 Medium: Lithograph in colors Dimensions: 55 x 55 cm Edition of 125: Hans signed and numbered Co...