Pierre Fix-Masseau

1990 original screenprint by Pierre Fix-Masseau, titled "Train et Globes"

1990

Lucien Boucher 🇫🇷 (1889 - 1971) was a French painter, engraver, poster artist and draftsman. He studied ceramics at the Sèvres school before being sent to the front in 1914. Taken ...

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"Italien Schweiz (Train)" is an original color lithograph poster by Aage Rasmussen. It features a train speeding past landmarks of Italy. 39 1/4" x 24 1/4" art 49 1/2" x 33 5/8" fr...

Reproduction in lithography of Fix-Masseau Exactitude. Copyrighted 1982 Studio Editions. Printed in France by Bedos on heavy linen like paper.

Paper Size: 32 x 8.75 inches ( 81.28 x 22.225 cm ) Image Size: 30.25 x 7 inches ( 76.835 x 17.78 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addition...

Jean-Michel Folon (1934- ) Jean-Michel Folon was born in Brussels. He began to study architecture but abandoned it in favor of drawing, which allowed more expressive studies. His drawings have appeared in numerous magazines including Time, Fortune, The New Yorker, and L'Express. In 1969 he had his first one-man show in the United States, followed closely by exhibitions in Tokyo, Venice, Milan, London, Sao Paulo, Geneva, Brussels, and Paris. Folon has illustrated works by Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Ray Bradbury. In 1973 he created a series of watercolors titled La Mort d'un Arbre (The Death of a Tree), for which Max Ernst created a lithograph as a preface. Folon has completed a 176-square-foot painting for a subway station in Brussels and a 160-square-foot painting for Waterloo Station in London. He is most comfortable using the engraving and drypoint techniques of printmaking. He designed theatre sets, magazine covers, advertisements, posters, wine labels, etc. Often involved in noble undertakings, such as working for world peace, for the disabled, and for safeguarding our environment, he worked on the graphic creation of the "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man" and produced posters for Unicef, Greenpeace and Amnesty International."  1968 It conceives mural for the house of France to Triennial of Milan, animated of 500 luminous points. It exposes 60 works to the Gallery from France in Paris, and creates a book of end of the year for The Museum of Modern Art of New York. moma. 1969 First exposures to New York, Lefebre Gallery. 1970 Visit Japan and shows in Tokyo and Osaka. It takes part in XXXVè Biennale of Venice in the house of Belgium. First exposure in Italy, in Galleria del Milione in Milan, October. 1971 Carry out a significant exposure to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris with 90 works which will be presented later on at the Palate of the Art schools of Charleroi, the Museum of Modern art of Brussels and at Castello Sforzesco of Milan. 1972 Expose to Arts Club of Chicago. 1973 Illustrate the Metamorphosis of Kafka. Alice Editions publishes a collection of watercolours, the Death of a tree, of which he writes also the text. Max Ernst prefaces the book of an original lithography. It belongs to the selection of Belgian artists of XIIè Biennale of Sao Paulo, whose Great Price is decreed to him. 1974 Carry out ten etchings and aquatintes for the Circular Ruins of Jorge Luis Borges. Expose to Milan, the Marconi Studio. For a room of the new subway of Brussels it carries out Magic City, painting of 165 m2. 1975 Undertakes the one second mural decoration, Paysage, for Olivetti, in Waterloo Station in London. Its correspondence in images with Giorgio Soavi is the subject of a book, Lettres with Giorgio, published by Alice Editions. 1976 Expose to the Boymans-van-Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, then in Deutsches Plakatmuseum, Essen. Carry out covers colors for various magazines, of which Time, which will publish four during years of them. 1977 Expose to Institute of Contemporary Art in London and Spoleto within the framework of XXè Festival, of which it draws the poster. 1978 Expose to the Museum of Modern art of Liege with Milton Glaser. Illustrate Alcools and Calligrammes , of Guillaume Apollinaire. 1979 Illustrate Martian Chroniques , of Ray Bradbury and the complete work of Jacques Prévert in 7 volumes. Exposure of watercolours to the Berggruen Gallery, Paris. 1980 By a series of twelve watercolours and joinings, it illustrates the Autumn in Peking, of Boris Vian, and by a continuation of etchings and aquatintes, the Useless beauty, of Guy of Maupassant. 1981 At the request of Michel Soutter, it designs the decorations of the theatre for works of Frank Martin and Giacomo Pucccini represented with the Large Theatre of Geneva. It carries out images projected for Histoire of the soldier , Igor Stravinsky, with the theatre of the Life in Brussels. 1982 The Museum from the Post office in Paris exposes its work engraved and the Museum Ingres de Montauban organizes an exposure. 1983 It carries out films in drawings in its workshop and turns of the short films to New York, Los Angeles and the Orleans News. Improvise a continuation in images, Conversation, with Milton Glaser, published by Alice Editions. 1984 Retrospective of its posters to Defense in Paris. It carries out the illustrations of the poetic of Guillaume Apollinaire and serious work a succession of etchings and aquatintes for Pluies of New York d' Albert Camus. Exposure to the museum Picasso d' Antibes. 1985 It goes to Japan for a retrospective which will be presented at Tokyo, Osaka and Kamakura. Close to the Door from Italy...