Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)

1957

Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon]. Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106. History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...

At the window is an contemporary artwork realized by the artist Dipas in the 1970s. Mixed colored screen print. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left m...

Along the Nile is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner  Mixed colored Chromolithograph.  The artwork is after the watercolors realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt...