Jean Michel Folon Art
Belgian, 1934-2005
Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
He was born on 1 March 1934 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium in 1934. He studied architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc.
Jean-Michel Folon became internationally known in the 1960s for his illustrations of works by famous artists such as Franz Kafka and Boris Vian, and for his poster and advertisement designs. Among other things, the Olivetti (typewriter) advertising campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s are marked by his signature and have been included in numerous poster collections. In addition, he sketched a wide variety of newspaper and magazine articles (including Time magazine) with his illustrations accompanying the topics, which were often used as covers. His pictures are often laid out in a light and subtle as well as surrealistic-melancholic watercolour and pen technique.
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Floraison
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful watercolor on paper, 1973.
Declaration of authenticity by the author included, titled, signed and dated (year 2000).
Very good condition.
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Mountains, Large Pencil Signed Modernist Silkscreen Belgian Illustrator
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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...
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No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Offset, 1993
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 77/100
65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
43.00 cm. x 35.00 cm. 16.93 in. x 13.78 in. (image)
Certifi...
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1990s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
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Offset
Folon 20 ans d'affiches
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, 1984
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 24/100
85.00 cm. x 65.00 cm. 33.46 in. x 25.59 in. (paper)
67.00 cm. x 60.00 cm. 26.38 in. x 23.62 in. (image)
Poste...
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" La pensée " unic prototype
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Michel FOLON .
Né en Belgique , Jean michel Folon suit des cours de design industriel dans les années 50. Il s'embarque des l'age de 21 ans pour la France à Bougival où il vit comme dessinateur de presse pour des magazines belges . c'est en démarchant des revues new-yorkaises qu'il connait son premier grand succès .
dans les années 80 , il s'installe sur la Côte d'Azur , Il travaille comme affichiste pour des ONG comme l'unicef ou GREENPEACE .en 1990 , poussé par CESAR il se lance dans la sculpture .
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L'Enfant Robot - Lithograph by J.-M. Folon
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Located in Roma, IT
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Very good conditions.
Jean-Michel Folon
(March 1, 1934, Uccle, Belgium - October 20, 2005, Monaco)
was a Belgian arti...
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La Menace I - Etching and Aquatint by J.M. Folon - 1978
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
La Menace I is an original color etching and aquatint on wove paper, realized in 1978 by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2005).
Hand-signed...
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1970s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated HC
53.00 cm. x 67.50 cm. 20.87 in. x 26.57 in. (paper)
43.00 cm. x 55.00 cm. 16.93 in. x 21.65 in. (image)
Certificate o...
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1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
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Train Silkscreen Hand Signed Belgian Modernist Folon
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category
20th Century Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Screen
Dream - Etching by J.-M. Folon - 1970
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 12/99, numbered and signed.
Near perfect conditions.
Passepartout included : 34 x 49 cm
Image Dimensions : 21.5 x 29.5 cm
Category
1970s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
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Untitled (Arrow Head), Surrealist Screenprint by Jean Michel Folon
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean Michel Folon, Belgian (1934 - 2005)
Title: Untitled (Arrow Head)
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: EA XV/XX
Image Size: 28 x 21....
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Illustration for Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles - by J. M. Folon - 1980
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Illustration for Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is an original modern artwork realized in 1980 by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2...
Category
1980s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Etching
Cities People - Lithograph by Jean Michel Folon - 1980s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 90 prints.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ardennes, Dream in a Suitcase - Offset art print
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Michel FOLON
Ardennes, Dream in a Suitcase
Offset art print
Signature printed in the plate
on paper 56 x 75 cm (c. 22 x 30 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Surrealist Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Offset
Moon phase man
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Not signed
65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
43.50 cm. x 32.50 cm. 17.13 in. x 12.8 in. (image)
Arches paper
A lithograph by the Belgian artist, captu...
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1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
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Untitled - Lithograph by Jean Michel Folon - 1990
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Jean Michel Folon ( 1934-2005).
cm 65x50, no frame.
Signed and numbered (Exemplary H.C) on plate and in pencil on the front.
Good conditions!
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1990s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
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Lithograph
Sans Vie - Lithograph by Jean Michel Folon - 1970s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 90.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Bottled Message
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, 1975
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 65/200
LCD5397
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Silk
L'Evasion - Lithograph by J.-M. Folon
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Diabolic Car is an original artwork realized by Jean Michel Folon.
Lithograph on paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition o...
Category
Late 20th Century Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
Urban landscape - Etching by Jean Michel Folon - 1970s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Urban landscape is a modern artwork realized by the belgian illustratorJean-Michel Folon (1934- 2005).
Original etching and aquatint.
Handsigned and numbered on the lower margin ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Etching
Urban Landscape - Etching by Jean Michel Folon - 1978
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Urban landscape is a modern artwork realized by the belgian illustrator Jean-Michel Folon (1934- 2005).
Original etching and aquatint.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Etching
Demain (Tomorrow) - Etching by Jean Michel Folon - 1980s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Demain (Tomorrow) is an original modern artwork realized in 1980s by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2005).
Original etching and aquatint.
Hand signed and numbere...
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1980s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
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Souvenir d'Alice
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, 1973
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 13/200
Publisher : Editions Galerie Jacques Marquet (Paris)
73.00 cm. x 91.00 cm. 28.74 in. x 35.83 in. (paper)
44.00...
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
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Silk
Folon Exhibition Poster, Galerie Charles Kriwin
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Surfside, FL
The Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon was born in 1934 in Uccle, in the surroundings of Brussels. Although having made studies of architecture, he will be devoted very quickly to the drawing. He takes part, by its illustrations, with reviews and other periodicals ; he is considered a long time as cartoonist. Folon very early created a world which is clean for him into which an anonymous character seems to float or slip into an indefinite world, sometimes absurd.
By the use of the color, its work takes a more pictorial turn towards the end of the Sixties. In 1969, its first personal show is organized in New York (Lefebre Gallery). In little time its universe is essential: covers of French and American newspapers...
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1980s Modern Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Paper
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Lithograph
Today - Original Etching by Jean Michel Folon - 1980s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
Today is an original modern artwork realized in 1980s by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2005).
Original etching and aquatint.
Hand signed and numbered on the lowe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Etching
H 19.69 in W 25.6 in D 0.04 in
L'Enfant Robot - Etching by Jean Michel Folon - 1970s
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Roma, IT
L'Enfant Robot is an original color etching and aquatint on wove paper, realized in the half 1970s by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2005).
Hand-signed in capital ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Etching
H 10.63 in W 14.57 in D 0.08 in
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 32/75
Publisher : Alice Editions
50.00 cm. x 66.00 cm. 19.69 in. x 25.98 in. (paper)
30.00 cm. x 37.00 cm. 11.81 in. x 14....
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted EA II/XX
45.00 cm. x 32.00 cm. 17.72 in. x 12.6 in. (paper)
33.00 cm. x 24.00 cm. 12.99 in. x 9.45 in. (image)
Annoted "EA...
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 10/90
57.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 22.44 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
37.00 cm. x 30.00 cm. 14.57 in. x 11.81 in. (image)
LCD4521
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 10/90
57.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 22.44 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
37.00 cm. x 30.00 cm. 14.57 in. x 11.81 in. (image)
LCD4522
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving, 1972
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted EA
73.00 cm. x 57.00 cm. 28.74 in. x 22.44 in. (paper)
52.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 20.47 in. x 14.96 in. (image)
Artist pro...
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted EA IV/XX
55.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 21.65 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)
36.00 cm. x 29.00 cm. 14.17 in. x 11.42 in. (image)
LCD4523
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Engraving
No title
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 59/200
LCD4520
Category
1970s Abstract Jean Michel Folon Art
Materials
Lithograph
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