Mayo

The Growing Feet - Black and White Etching by Mayo - 1977

1977

Image dimensions: 33x22.5 cm. Edition of 25 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.

Slippers (Original title "All Around Me") is an original Contemporary artwork realized by an unknown artist and signed "Kokotovic", in 1973. Original Etching on Fabriano paper. H...

Personnage sans Tête is an original black and white etching on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo , art name of Malliarakis (1905-1990) in 1977. Hand-Signed in pencil on the lower right margin, artist's proof, as the pencil inscription reports on the lower left margin "E.A. In good condition Antoine Mayo (Port Said, Egypt 1905 - Seine Port1990) Greek painter naturalized French citizen, active from 1924 in France, was a Surrealist artist and a polyhedric artist: painter, decorator, costume, designer, illustrator and much more. His father was Greek and his mother French, friend of Prévert and Desnos, he is also known for his work as a decorator and costume designer of masterpieces such as Les Enfants du Paradis, Golden helmet or Hiroshima my love.

Foot is a phototype print reproducing drawing by Renzo Vespignani of the 1960s Signed on the plate lower right. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and perfect hatchings.

Fred Deux - Grey VII - Signed Original Etching Signed and Numbered Edition of 100 Dimensions: 24 x 14 cm Fred Deux Fred Deux, illustrator, oral poet, writer, and, under the pseudonym Jean Douassot, author of a cult book, La Gana, was a singular artist who cannot be categorised in terms of art fashions and trends. This autodidact, born in the basement of a large house in Boulogne-Billancourt to a working-class family, constantly had to overcome, as he would say. “He had to overcome”: overcome the basement walls to access the life which called him and burnt inside him. Overcome the barriers between the arts, moving from drawing to the written word, and from the page to the tape recorder, in the face of which he recounted stories to himself in a sort of endless reverie, constantly exploring the unknown in him. Overcoming and being overcome: gradually immersing himself in drawing, so that it was life itself which overcame him and surrendered to him. Timeline 1924 Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. The Deux family lived in the basement of a building close to the Seine that was often flooded. These living conditions formed the biographical core around in which the artist would develop his work as a future writer and artist. 1942 Deux worked in a factory as an electrician and night guard. 1943 Deux becomes part of the FTP group to resist against the factory. And then joined the Maquis du Doubs. 1945 At the liberation, Deux joined the Moroccan Goumier, and took part of the campaigns of Vosges, Alsace and Germany. 1947 Returned to France. Installation in Marseille. Worked in an important library that belonged to the family of his wife. 1948 Discovered Breton, Bataille, Cendrars, Peret, Sade... and founded the sub-group of Surrealists in Marseille and formed a link with the literary magazine of Marseille, Cahiers du Sud Encounters the works of Paul Klee. He begins creating his first stains with paint for bicycle and impressions (fabric and ink). At the same time, he begins to take notes for what would become "Les Rats", first version of "La Gana". 1951 Meets Cecile Reims...

A fine graphite drawing depicting a classical statue of a foot. Unsigned. The drawing has been float-mounted and presented in a slim black frame. On paper.

This abstract figure by feminist modern artist Joan Semmel is almost grotesque in its depiction of a nude body crouched on the floor. Their hands brace against the ground, shoulders ...

Lars BO Surrealist encounter (Le Rêve de Jean Valjean 7/8), 1975 Original etching Handsigned in pencil On vellum, 36 x 45 cm (c. 14,1 x 17,7 inch) Edition limited to 100 unnumbered ...