Leon Boullet

Metamorphosis - Lithograph by Leon Boullet - 1950s

1950s

Metamorphosis is an original lithograph realized in the 1950s by Leon Boullet (1921-1970). Good conditions. Signed on the plate. The artwork is depicte...

Metamorphosis is an original lithograph realized in the 1950s by Leon Boullet (1921-1970). Good conditions. Signed on the plate. The artwork is depicte...

Metamorphosis is a lithograph realized in the 1950s by Jaen Boullet (1921-1970). Signed on the plate. Good conditions wth slight foxing The artwork is depicted by strong strokes i...

Composition Of Diodora is an original lithograph realized by Bruno Capacci in 1950. The artwork is part of an edition of 500 specimens by "La nef d'argent" Paris. In good condition...

Serge Brignoni, Swiss (1903 - 2002) - Untitled from Le Surrealisme en 1947, Year: 1947, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 950, Size: 9 x 7.75 in. (22.86 x 19.69 cm), Printer: Mourlot, Pa...

Bruno Capacci, Italian (1906 - 1996) - Untitled from Le Surrealisme en 1947, Year: 1947, Medium: Etching, Edition: 950, Size: 9 x 7.75 in. (22.86 x 19.69 cm), Printer: Mourlot, Pari...

Artist: Leonard Baskin, American (1922 - 2000) Title: Grotesque Year: 1969 Medium: Ink on Paper, signed Size: 40 in. x 27.5 in. (101.6 cm x 69.85 cm) Frame Size: 45 x 32 inches

Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...