Jean Charlot Art

"First Steps" is an original lithograph created by Jean Charlot. This is a wonderful piece with hispanic styling, showing a mother teaching her child how to walk. The mother is shown...

This artwork titled "Mock Battle" 1956 in an original color lithograph on paper by noted French/American artist Jean Charlot, 1898-1979. It is hand signed and dedicate in pencil by the artist. the image size is 17.75 x 12 inches, framed size is 28.75 x 22 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with off white matting and silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition. Examples of this particular work are held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, and the Portland Art Museum, Portland. About the artist: Jean Charlot was an artist, teacher, scholar, critic, poet, and playwright. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts, and served in the French Army from 1918 to 1920. After the war he moved to Mexico, where he had relatives, and joined a group of other young artists in the Mexican Mural Renaissance of the 1920s. Charlot's fresco mural in the Preparatoria Nacional was the first of many he completed. While in Mexico, he wrote numerous articles on art, among them the first on the Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, and worked as an archeologist and illustrator with the Carnegie expedition to Chichen Itza...