(after) Pablo Picasso

Expo 59 - Galerie de la Colombe

1959

Artist: (after) Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Title: "Galerie Louise Leiris (The Painter & His Model)" Year: 1972 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove pa...

Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985) Title: "Cheval Bleu au Couple (Blue Horse with Couple)" Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir: Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght (No. 250) ...

Artist: Janusz De Rola (Polish, 1906-1991) Title: "Un Soir a Paris" *Signed by De Rola in pencil lower right Year: 1990 Medium: Original Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 31/125 Printer: Unknown Publisher: Vision Nouvelle, Paris, France Sheet size: 30" x 22" Image size: 25.5" x 19" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In mint condition Extremely rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Paris, France. Rives BFK watermark lower right. Biography: Janusz de Rola (1906-1991) was born in Poland to a family of the princely nobility. His father is friends with the Emperor of Austria-Hungary the famous Franz Joseph. Having studied at Vienna (Austria), he entered the diplomatic service as vice-consul of Poland in Sicily and is pursuing a cultural and diplomatic career until 1939. A volunteer in 1939 in the Polish forces fighting alongside the French troops, the hazards of war led him to Nice. He will live there after the armistice, to meet with his wife. Then he will live in Vienna in the 1960s (Salesianer Gasse 7), then in the Var, Pignans (the field of Cressonniere from 1971) and finally in Gonfaron from 1981 until his death in 1991. He holds a "Nansen Passport", he will remain stateless after the war. Between 1940 and 1950 he was a pupil of the painter Sylvain Vigny. He joins a group where Picasso whose face he meets. Since the fifties of Janusz ROLA imposes his figurative painting, including his famous "elegant" works acquired by larger collections. In the early 1970s he met the painter Roger Boubenec who became his friend and who said of him: "He was the man of Europe. Painter, poet, musician To him I owe the visual sense the composition ". Janusz from ROLA received the title of Artist of the Year 1986 awarded by the largest German magazine in the cultural field, "Madame". In 1987 the South Art magazine wrote an article in the first issue. Salvatore Lombardo, founder of the magazine, will honor him in a small book published in 1991. official portraitist of the Saudi royal family has also produced portraits of Sophia Loren...

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904) Title: "Vison" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts *Issued unsigned Year: 1895 Medium: Original Lithograph on chine appliqué on wove paper Limited edition: approx. 1,500 Printer: Imprimeries Lemercier, Paris, France Publisher: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Reference: Hediard No. 122 (IV/IV); Sanchez & Seydoux 1895-6, page 126 Sheet size: 11" x 7.38" Image size: 7.5" x 5.75" Condition: Some minor discoloration in margins. In excellent condition Notes: Original cover tissue sleeve mounted at left margin as issued. This lithograph was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years - one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002. Biography: Henri Fantin-Latour, in full Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (born Jan. 14, 1836, Grenoble, France—died Aug. 25, 1904, Buré), French painter, printmaker, and illustrator noted for his still lifes with flowers and his portraits, especially group compositions, of contemporary French celebrities in the arts. Fantin-Latour’s first teacher was his father, a well-known portrait painter. Later, he studied at the school of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the official French Salons, but in 1863 he also showed his work in the rebel Salon des Refusés. Although academic in manner, Fantin-Latour was independent in style. He had numerous friends among the leading French painters of his day, including J.-A.-D. Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, and Gustave Courbet. His portrait groups, often arranged in rows of heads and figures like 17th-century Dutch guild portraits...

Artist: Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) Title/Portfolio: "Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (The Gospel according to Matthew)" *Unsigned edition Year: 1960 Medium: The Complete Book Portfolio of 33 Original Lithographs on white smooth offset paper Limited edition: 1,366/2,000 Printer: Klibor, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Käthe Vogt Verlag, Berlin, Germany Reference: "Otto Dix: Das Graphische Werk" - Karsch No. 235-267, page 227-246 Overall book size: 11.75" x 9.38" Each sheet size: 11.38" x 9" Condition: Some light wear to outer dust jacket associated with age, otherwise the inside and all works are in excellent condition Rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Windhagen, Germany. Hand numbered in back. Printed in black from zinc plates. Book binding by Wübben & Co, cover and graphic design by Reinhart Braun both in Berlin, Germany. The complete 107 page book includes 33 original lithographs, 25 of which are are full page size, and text of the "Book of Matthew". The complete tirage is as follows: 1. 30 signed and numbered examples on Japan paper (37 prints, 4 extra states) 2. 2,000 book edition on white offset paper 2a. 1-100 in Saffiano Leather signed by Dix 2b. 101-400 bound in half-parchment signed by Dix 2c. 401-2,000 bound in linen unsigned (*Our example offered here.) The titles of the 33 works are "Abraham and Isaac", "Wise Men Visit the Christ Child", "Flight to Egypt", "Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem", "Baptism of Jesus", "The Temptation", "Calling of Peter", "Sermon on the Mount...

Artist: Théo Tobiasse (Israeli-French, 1927-2012) Title: "Je Traverse une Ville sur un Cheval de Papier (I Ride through Town on a Paper Horse)" *Signed by Tobiasse in pencil lower right Circa: 1980 Medium: Original Lithograph on Japon paper Limited edition: 165/175. (There were also 15 artist's proofs in roman numerals) Printer: Unknown Publisher: Unknown Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.5" Image size: 19.75" x 25.88" Condition: Minor skinning from previous mounting tape on verso and some remnants of mounting tape from previous framing on verso. In excellent condition Rare Notes: Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Dallas, TX / Sacramento, CA; acquired from Reddi-Arts, Inc, Jacksonville...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Minotaure, Buveur et Femmes (after Bloch 200) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halftone...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Sculpteur au Repos avec Modèle démasqué et sa Représentation sculptée (after Bloch 159) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Marie-Thérèse considérant son Effigie surréaliste sculptée (after Bloch 187) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition us...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Le Repos du Sculpteur devant un Nu à la Draperie (after Bloch 160) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the gr...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Flûtiste et Jeune Fille au Tambourin (after Bloch 213) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Petite Fille aux Fleurs (after Bloch 222) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using...