Louis Claude

Equestrian Jump

1925

The Magicians Message From Cuevas' Comedies. Screenprint with collage additions and five lithographs from a portfolio of ten lithographs (one with screenprint and embossing, one with embossing) and five screenprints (two double-sided, one with collage additions). Pencil signed and dated 1971, edition 84/100, blindstamp visible, published by Collector's Press, San Francisco. Framed under Plexiglas. Jose Louis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1933 -2017. A master draftsman, Jose Luis Cuevas played a pivotal role in Latin America's drawing and printmaking renaissance of the sixties and seventies. He is also associated with Latin America's neofigurative movement, along with artists such as Fernando Botero and Antonio Segui. By the age of fourteen, he had illustrated numerous periodicals and books and had had his first exhibition in Mexico City. In 1953 Cuevas published La cortina del nopal (The Cactus Curtain), an article condemning aspects of the Mexican Mural movement and advocating greater artistic freedom. This philosophy inspired the founding in 1960 of the group Nueva Presencia, which he joined for a brief time. It promoted individual expression and figurative art reflecting the contemporary human condition. Cuevas' work was influenced by the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as by Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, degraded humanity and prostitutes were of particular thematic interest. Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints. Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate. It is for this reason that he often distorts and transforms the human figure to the point of uniqueness. Cuevas has had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world including the: University of Texas, Austin, 1961, the San Francisco Museum of Art, California,1970, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1972, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, 1974, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1975, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1976. His work was included in Four Masters of Line: Jose Luis Cuevas, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Morris Graves, Musee de la Napoule, France, 1957 and in The Emergent Decade, Cornell University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965. Among his many awards are First International Prize for Drawing, Biennial of Sao Paulo, 1959, First Prize, International Black and White Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland, 1962, First International Prize for Printmaking, Triennial of Graphic Arts, New Delhi, India, 1968, First Prize, III Latin American Print...

Letter From Vienna Artist signed, dated, paper sheet 30x22.5 Krystyna Smiechowska was born in 1935 Krakow -2014 Paris France. Printmaker Krystyna Smiechowska draws her inspiration f...

Carborundum Etching, artist signed edition 10/30, 60"h x 40" framed under plexiglass. Pierre Marie Brisson French b. 1955 - one of the most talented contemporary artists. Brisson...

JAMES COIGNARD (1925-2008) Untitled, Carborundum color etching and collage with / string embroidery, signed and numbered 69/75, about 20x26 inches. Excellent condition.

Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1927 by Paul Klee. From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 40 Image: 7.48 x 5.91 in ( 19 x 15 cm ), Framed: 15.16 x 13.46 in ( ...

Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1928 by Paul Klee. Signatur is printed, lower center: Klee From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 48 Image: 4.13 x 7.56 in ( 1...

This artwork "Nude Woman with Cat" c.1990, is an original colors etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted Mexican artist Jose Esteban Martinez, b.1951. It is hand signed in penci...

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Green Cat, 1984 Color etching and aquatint on copper plate, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper Pencil signed, numbered 178/230, dated 1984 along with artist's perso...