Georges Laporte Art

Keith Haring Against all Odds 1990 Four works from the Against All Odds, 20 Drawings series, 1990 Lithographs Ed of 500 28 x 24 in with frame 8 x 10 1...

Artist: Tracey Emin Title: Curled Up Year: 2022 Medium: Screenprint on Rives BFK paper, deckled edges Edition: 100; signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 23 3/5 × 30 i...

This tenderly illustrated print depicts a black dog sitting comfortably on the lawn. A low fence and a bench can be seen in the background. Plants grow along the sides of the lawn, b...

A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek ur...

Erte hand signed and numbered limited edition lithograph and screen print. From the Alphabet Suite. Framed dimensions are 26" W x 31" T. Near Mint condi...

Pop art scene of abstracted Greek pillars and green leaves. Drawings in black and white, pale blue, red and grey compose this colorful print. Layers of p...

A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, female figure, greek urns, and an...

Published by the Royal Academy

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI DE (1864-1901) "LA CHAINE SIMPSON" Original lithograph from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris Bearing MDL stamp lower right, from issue #60, 1900. Plate #238 Unframed Size: 11 3/8 x 15 3/4” The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" series was offered as a subscription series to collectors every month for 60 months, from December 1895 through November 1900. The "Maitres de l'Affiche," were issued as separate numbered sheets, referred to as "plates". They were numbered, with the printers name "Imprimerie Chaix," in the margin at the bottom left hand corner, "PL.1" to "PL.240." In the margin at the bottom right hand corner of each, is a blind embossed stamp from a design of Cheret's. The smaller format and the fact the "Maitres" were a paid subscription series, allowed Imprimerie Chaix to use the latest state of the art printing techniques, not normally used in the large format posters due to cost. A very high quality of paper was used, where as the large format posters were printed on lesser quality newsprint, due to cost and a short expected life span. This explains why the quality of the printing, in the "Maitres de l'Affiche," usually far exceeds that of their larger counterparts. "In her recent excellent biography of Lautrec, Julia Frey indicates that 'Henry, the frustrated athlete, was compulsively familiar with the vocabulary and technical aspects of a variety of sports in which he could participate as a spectator: horse and bicycle racing, wrestling, yachting, bullfighting. He watched them all with the same intensity that he watched a line of dancers or a circus bareback rider, attracted by the beauty of movement, but also by the smells, sounds and excitement of the spectacle (Frey, p.353) His 'insider' knowledge of the cycling field shows up abundantly in this poster for the French agent of the Simpson bicycle chain company. In the foreground is the champion cyclist Constant Huret. In the background are Tristan Bernard, the sports impresario who was a close friend of Lautrec, with Louis Bougle, the French agent who adopted the name 'Spoke.' A touch of levity is added by what appears to be a 'bicycle-built-for-ten' in the upper-left corner, in fact it's two five-seaters, known at the time as 'quints.'"(Rennert, PAI-XXII, 35)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec came from an aristocratic background, having been born the son of an earl.Even as a schoolboy he showed a talent for drawing. By 14 he had suffered two horse back riding accidents, combined with a serious bone disease which eventually left him crippled for life. His body continued to grow but not his legs, he would remain only five feet tall and suffer pain and embarrassment his entire life.At the age of 18, Lautrec moved to Montmartre in Paris to study art seriously. He worked with artists Louis Anquentin, Emile Bernard, Degas, Van Gogh and others. He became a frequenter of the the cafes, cabarets and brothels of the neighborhood, drawing from them inspirations for his artistic themes. As the artist's stature grew, several magazines wanted to publish his work, including Le Rire. His subjects, as well as street life, included some of the most famous music-hall performers, with whom he became friends, such as Yvette Guilbert, La Goulue Jane Avril, May Milton, May Belfort...

"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall is numbered and signed Epreuve d’artiste’ and numbered XXIV/XXV, and is apart from the edition of 50. 76,2 x 53,7 cm. This lithograph from 1969. C...

An abstract black and white shadowbox drawing of a Greek column, with a unique handmade, hand printed, leather brown wood grain frame. According to Roberta Smith, Michael Hurson "......

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...