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Pierre Alechinsky
A Maiakovski (For Mayakovsky) signed by Alechinsky & Christine Rochefort #10/50
1958

Name: A Maiakovski (For Mayakovsky) signed by Alechinsky & Christine Rochefort #10/50
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Pierre Alechinsky A Maiakovski, 1958 (For Mayakovsky) Color lithograph and offset lithograph with text Pencil numbered 10/50 and signed by BOTH artist Pierre Alechinsky and writer Christiane Rochefort and numbered 10/50 Published by Imprimerie Gerard, Paris on the occasion of the exhibition "A Maiakovski" at Galerie D. Benador in Geneva, Switzerland Lithographie en couleurs, réalisée à l'occasion de l'exposition «A. Maiakovski», signée par Alechinsky et Christiane Rochefort, numérotée 10/50 Frame included: held in the original brown wood vintage period frame Pierre Alechinsky biography Pierre Alechinsky was born on October 19, 1927 in Brussels. His father was Russian, his mother was Walloon and both were doctors. A painter, engraver and artist, he has lived and worked in France since 1951. Between 1944 and 1948 he studied typography and the illustration of books at the École nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs (La Cambre, Brussels). At the same time, he started painting and joined the group of young Belgian painters (Jeune Peinture Belge) in 1947. In 1949, after meeting the poet Christian Dotremont, he joined the CoBrA (Copenhagen/Brussels/Amsterdam) group. In Brussels, on behalf of CoBrA, he founded a Research Center in a communal house, the Ateliers du Marais. In addition, he was involved in the eponymous magazine created by the group. In 1951, the year the movement was dissolved, he organized the second and final Cobra international exhibition of experimental art at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Liège. After this, he left Brussels and moved to Paris where he perfected his etching technique at Atelier 17. In 1965, André Breton chose his work Central Park (1965) for L'éva absolu, XIe Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme at the Galerie de l' Eye, in Paris. This work was a turning point in his artistic career: it was his first acrylic painting with remarks in the margin, and represented an aerial view of Central Park interpreted by the artist with the appearance of a monster. Alechinsky gradually abandoned oils for this new medium which he used on paper mounted on canvas. From 1979, Pierre Alechinsky was represented by Galerie Maeght, which became Galerie Lelong (and is now Lelong & Co.). In 1982, he reversed the method used for Central Park. The central subject would be painted in black, while the margins, which until now had been used for drawings within its boundaries, would become a colorful border. He produced monumental works to order: The Reception room at the French Ministry of Culture (1985), the rotunda linking Hotel de Lassay with the French National Assembly (1993), or vast walls of enamelled lava (Belgium, Denmark). Over the years, many institutions have organized retrospectives of his work: the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (1977), the MoMA, New York (1981), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1986); the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1998); the Center for Engraving and Printed Images, La Louvière (2000); the Graphic Art Cabinet of the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris (2004); the BNF, Paris (2005); the Granet Museum, Aix en Provence (2010); Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (2015); the museums of Osaka and Tokyo (2016-2017). Pierre Alechinsky has received a number of prizes and awards: Young Belgian Painting (1950); Etching biennial, Kracow (1966); Triennial of Belgian Engraving (1966); Marzotto-Europe Grand Prix for painting (1968); Andrew W. Award Mellon (1976); Grand Prix national des Arts et Lettres for Painting (1984); Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1987); Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (1992); Doctor Honoris Causa of the Free University of Brussels (1994); André Malraux Art Book Prize (2004); Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Liège (2010); Praemium Imperiale, Japan (2018). -Courtesy Galerie Lelong More about Maiakovsky (Mayakovsky) Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and―most important―poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Revolution and the emerging Soviet State, Mayakovsky was championed by Stalin after his death and enshrined as a quasi-official Soviet poet, a position that led to undeserved neglect among Western literary scholars even as his influence on other poets has remained powerful. - Publisher’s blurb for Bengt Jangfeldt’s first comprehensive biography of Mayakovsky, Mayakovsky biography (translated) Vladimir Mayakovsky was the leading Russian Futurist poet of the 20th century who created an entirely new form of Russian poetry loosely resembling such modern day rappers as Eminem and Snoop Dogg. He was born Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky on July 19, 1893, in the town of Bagdadi, Kutaisi province in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire (now Georgia). He was the last of three children in a Russian-Ukrainian family. His father, Vladimir Mayakovsky, was a Russian Cossack who worked for Imperial Ministry as a forest ranger. His mother, Alexandra Alekseevna, was Ukrainian. Young Mayakovsky grew up in a bilingual environment, his mother spoke Georgian while he learned Russian, and spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 1906, when Mayakovsky was 13, his father died of blood poisoning caused by a finger cut. Young Mayakovsky moved to Moscow with his mother and two sisters. During his formative years Mayakovsky absorbed multi-cultural influences from Transcaucasia and Russia. From 1906 - 1908 he studied at Moscow Gymnasium, then dropped out and was involved in revolutionary movement with then underground Communist Party of Russia. Because of his association with communists, he was arrested three times, violated the prison rules, and spent over six months in Butyrskaya prison in Moscow. There he wrote his first poems while in a solitary cell in 1909. After his prison term, Mayakovsky refused to join the Communist Party, and for that Vladimir Lenin warranted his communist comrades that they should not trust Mayakovsky and should watch his activities and publications. During the 1910s Mayakovsky emerged as independent thinker and writer. He studied at Stroganov School of Art, then at Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There he met Futurist artist David Burlyuk, and the two collaborated on several art shows and books. In 1912, Mayakovsky moved to St. Petersburg, the capital famous for its wealth, cultural diversity, and cosmopolitan lifestyle. There he met Maxim Gorky who was instrumental with his initial steps and introductions. Mayakovsky wrote and directed his first play, a tragedy titled 'Vladimir Mayakovsky', that premiered at a St. Petersburg theatre in 1913. At that time, on a dacha in the Levashovo suburb of St. Petersburg, Mayakovsky met Lilya Brik, the woman who changed his life forever. She became his Muse, lover, and most trusted companion, while her husband, Osip Brik eventually became the publisher of Mayakovsky's most important works. In St. Petersburg Mayakovsky published his passionate poems: 'Cloud in the Trousers' (1915) and 'The Backbone Flute' (1916) alluding to his sexuality and the emerging menage à trois relationship with the Briks. In the popular literary club "Brodyachaya Sobaka" (aka.. Wandering Dog) Mayakovsky met the aspiring poet Anna Akhmatova, her husband Nikolai Gumilev, and other important figures of the flourishing St. Petersburg cultural scene. Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy, one of the leading writers in St. Petersburg, proclaimed Mayakovsky a genius, and promoted his poetry. However, during the 1914 - 1918, the disastrous First World War, two Russian revolutions, and the following Russian Civil War brought immense destruction, poverty, and instability. Mayakovsky was drafted and served in Petrograd Military Automobile School from 1915 to August 1917. After the Revolution of 1917, he remained in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and was editor of Futurist paper as well as art magazines "Iskusstvo" and other projects. In 1918 Mayakovsky made his film debut appearing in three silent films made at Neptun studio in St. Petersburg. He appeared as actor co-starring opposite Lilya Brik in Zakovannaya filmoi (1918), which he also wrote, and in Nye dlya deneg radivshisya (1918); both films were directed by Nikandr Turkin. Mayakovsky also co-starred in The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918), which he also co-directed. At that time his stage-play 'Mystery-Bouffe' (1918) premiered at a St. Petersburg's theatre. In mid-1919 he moved from St. Petersburg back to Moscow and shared a small room in a communal flat with his friend and lover Lilya Brik. For a while he worked as designer and poet for propaganda publications at ROSTA, the Russian Telegraph Agency. His circle in Moscow included such cultural figures as Osip Brik and Lilya Brik, as well as their friends: artists and filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, and Alexander Rodchenko, writers Boris Pasternak and Viktor Shklovskiy among others. Mayakovsky and Brik published the avant-garde and leftist magazine 'LEF' together with Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov and Sergei Yutkevich, where they opposed the mainstream official Soviet culture. Mayakovsky went to extremes, he called to trash all history and traditional culture, such as the 19th century writers Alexander Pushkin and Lev Tolstoy, as well as classical art. He also opposed the dull official "proletariat" propaganda and conformist Soviet mass-culture. His satirical plays 'Klop' (aka.. Bedbug) and 'Banya' (aka.. Bath) were staged by director Vsevolod Meyerhold, but soon were banned. Mayakovsky actively contributed to the emerging Russian-Soviet film industry as a writer, actor, and film director. He also co-wrote scenario for Lilya Brik's film Yevrei na zemle (1927). During the 1920s, Mayakovsky traveled extensively in Europe and America, and amassed a significant cosmopolitan experience. In Paris he visited the studios of Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. In America Mayakovsky fathered a daughter, Patricia Tompson, form his relationship with Russian-American émigré Elli Jones (Elisaveta Petrovna). In Europe he had a relationship with another Russian emigrant actress. At that time he learned that most Russian writers and poets, such as Anastasiya Tsvetaeva, can not make money in the West. Back in Russia, he was so successful that he bought himself a new Renault car and hired a private chauffeur, comrade Gamazin, who was also a secret informant for Soviet Security agency. By the late-1920s Mayakovsky emerged as a popular and influential figure in Soviet culture and politics; he was a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer, director and public speaker. His highly electrifying public performances often irritated the Soviet officials. Mayakovsky applied his untamed genius in almost every aspect of cultural and political life, and eventually became a much higher and bigger figure than the Soviet officialdom could tolerate. His non-conformist and non-Marxist position became a problem. For that reason he was under constant surveillance by the Soviet authorities. Intellectuals regarded Mayakovsky for breaking all rules and traditions in literature, art and public life, and for exploding with his bold and highly original style of poetry. He was known for his passionate and intense public performances. He was also known for his hectic relationships with women. His personal life remained unstable for many years, as he was torn between several women in his life. On April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky was found dead, and his death was accompanied by a letter with a rather sarcastic message. The Soviet officials announced that Mayakovsky shot himself directly in his heart, because of his breakup with actress Veronika Polonskaya. Ten days after Mayakovsky's death the criminal investigator of the Mayakovsky's case was also shot dead. Mayakovsky was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Lilya Brik and her husband Osip Brik inherited the writer's archive. In 1935, five years after the death of Mayakovsky, Lily Brik wrote a letter to Iosif Stalin expressing her idea to publish the collected works of Mayakovsky. Stalin approved the Brik's idea, and ordered that Soviet publishers print collections of "revolutionary" poetry by Mayakovsky. Upon Stalin's instruction, Mayakovsky's "revolutionary" poetry was included in the Soviet school curriculum and reissued in massive printings. Vladimir Mayakovsky was depicted in the film Mayakovsky itskeboda ase... (1958) by director Konstantine Pipinashvili, based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (aka.. I-myself). -Courtesy IMBD -

Creator:
Pierre Alechinsky (1927, Belgian)
Creation Year:
1958
Dimensions:
Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph,Offset
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Not examined outside of original vintage wood period frame but appears very good with no apparent issues.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1745213761502

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