Jean Capdeville

Untitled, Abstract Etching by Jean Capdeville

circa 1970

Artist: Gilou Brillant, French (1935 - ) Title: untitled 30 Year: circa 1974 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 58/110 Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55...

Artist: Gilou Brillant (1935- ) Title: Untitled Year: 1975 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Carborundum, signed in pencil Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 29 x 3...

Jean Miotte - Original Etching 1998 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Edition: /40 From La Déchirure Jean Miotte, 1926 - 2016 Miotte came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the contemporary artistic language. The term, "L'Art Informel," was coined by the French critic, Michel Tapi, to connote "without form." The negation of traditional form, a radical break from established notions of order and composition, was particularly suited to a cultural environment born out of the circumstances of post war Europe where abuse of morals and fascist ideology had led to such horror and destruction. While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde. Rather the artists who came to be grouped as Informel, Jean Miotte, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher...

Etching and Aquatint made on zinc plate on Magnani-Pescia paper 310 gr/m2, paper size 75cm x 55cm, work size 55cm x 40.5 cm. Excellent condition, slight signs of use, no defects. Gr...