Léon Gischia
Correspondence by L. Gischia to N. Jacometti - 1960
1960

Name: Correspondence by L. Gischia to N. Jacometti - 1960
Brand: Léon Gischia
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This Correspondence between Léon Gischia and Nesto Jacometti, written in French and Italian , in 1960, is composed of 7 items, prefectly readable and in excellent conditions, except for holes on the left margin. A long Typewritten Letter Signed by N.J . Five Autograph Letters Signed by Lèon Gischia to Nesto. Autograph Note in pencil by N. J. to L.G. In 1955 the editor and collector, Nesto Jacometti engaged in the new publishing initiative, L'Oeuvre Gravée, calling new prestigious names on the Parisian art scene. Many artists owe their initiation to the art of engraving to him: Marino Marini, Massimo Campigli, Léon Gischia, Zao Wou-Ki, Johnny Friedlaender, Corneille, Max Ernst and Alberto Magnelli, and Mario Prassinos. The long typewritten letter by Nesto explains the graphic project and is a very detaild report of the ambitions editorial adventure, with date of payment, technical information about a new "oeuvre by Gischia to chez Mourlot". This Correspondence is the sum of leter of intentions and commitments of new artworks and lithographs! Léon Gischia (Dax, Landes, 1903 - 1991) is a French painter who worked in Paris also with Le Corbusier and F. Léger on the decoration of the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux (1937). The artist's works are featured in numerous major museums of modern art, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Many retrospectives were dedicated to him at the Paris Art Centre in 1985, the Galerie d’Art International in Paris in 1988, the Musée de Zagreb in 1988, the Musée de Borda in 1988, the Paris Art Centre in 1990. He also participated in the Venice Biennal in 1988. Gischia lived through three artistic phases: from 1917 to 1942 for figuration, from 1946 to 1960 for abstraction, from 1960 to his death for lively geometrization. Founding member of the Salon de Mai, he collaborated in the staging of about thirty installations plays and shows by Jean Vilar, taking care of the scenography and costumes, respecting his taste and compositional style, with the addition of surreal elements Nesto Jacometti (Locarno, 1898- 1973) Nesto Jacometti is still today a fascinating figure of the Locano and International cultural scene of the last century. Collector and editor of graphic art, he was the promoter of two important editorial projects and adventures: the Guilde Internationale de la Gravure and L’Oeuvre Gravée Born in Locarno at the end of the 19th century, at the age of 30 he left Ticino to move to Paris and immerse himself in the bohemian atmosphere of Montparnasse. The war forces him to return to Switzerland, to Geneva, where he works in the journalistic field and he knows figures as Albert Skira and Pierre Cailler. With the latter one a collaboration born and resulted, in 1949, in a printing guild: an edition of etchings and lithographs destined for a wide circulation of the Paris School. During all his life, Jacometti collaborates and involves artists such as Rufino Tamayo and Jean Lurçat, Antoni Clavé, Zao Wou-Ki, Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier and Zoran Music. He was awarded at the Venice Biennale in 1953, with the Critics' Grand Prix.In 1955 Jacometti engaged in the new publishing initiative, L'Oeuvre Gravée, calling new prestigious names on the Parisian art scene. Many artists owe their initiation to the art of engraving to him: Marino Marini, Massimo Campigli, Zao Wou-Ki, Johnny Friedlaender, Corneille, Max Ernst and Alberto Magnelli. Paul Claudel.

Creator:

Léon Gischia (1903 - 1991, French)

Creation Year:

1960

Dimensions:

Height: 10.63 in (27 cm)Width: 8.27 in (21 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)

Medium:

Permanent Marker

Movement & Style:

Surrealist

Period:

1960-1969

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Gallery Location:

Roma, IT

Reference Number:

Seller: M-1129851stDibs: LU65037297042

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Léon Gischia

Born in the ancient market town of Dax, not far from coastal Biarritz, in southwestern France, Léon Gischia moved to Paris in the early 1920s, where he studied under the French artist Ferdinand Léger in his Montparnasse studio. Alongside artists Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, Ferdinand Léger was a principal exponent of the Purist movement. Purism’s unique fusion of figurative representation with vibrant Cubism would prove a lifelong influence upon the work of Léon Gischia.

As part of the International Exhibition in Paris, over the summer of 1937, Gischia collaborated with his former-teacher Léger on Le Corbusier’s radical designs for the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux. A huge tent erected outside the main grounds of the exhibition — and described by a critic of the day as “the most exciting, convincing and easily remembered” — they expressed their vision of an ‘ideal city’ of the future. Fast gaining a significant artistic reputation, Gischia was recognised by influential Parisian art dealer and publisher Jeanne Bucher. His first solo exhibition took place in March 1938 at Bucher’s Montparnasse gallery, and amid garnering critical acclaim, his artistic debut was followed in 1939 by an exhibition at Galerie Alfred Poyet — just north of the Élysée Palace — in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

After the outbreak of the Second World War and the Nazi invasion in June 1940, Gischia remained in Paris and resolutely resisted the “degenerate” label applied to his work. Along with other artists from the “underground” avant-garde, Gischia successfully exhibited and sold his inventive work throughout the war in “back rooms” at the Galerie Braun and the Galerie de France. Alongside Gischia’s poetic sensibilities and sumptuous work, his wartime stoicism would consolidate his later position as an influential voice of the “School of Paris” group.

Gischia’s fruitful post-war relationship with the Galerie Billiet-Caputo — a stone’s throw from the Galerie Alfred Poyet, for which he exhibited before the war — resulted in his representing France at the 1948 Venice Biennale. This secured his international reputation, and soon, he was exhibiting in private galleries across the world. During the 1950s, Gischia even designed costumes and sets for the Theatre National Populaire in Paris, later writing well-regarded books on sculpture and so-called “primitive art.” Today his work features in public collections throughout Europe and the United States, and during the 1980s — before his death in Venice — Gischia enjoyed numerous internationally acclaimed retrospective exhibitions.

(Biography provided by Stern Pissarro Gallery)