Good condition. Minor fading throughout.
25.5″W x 32.5″H
SOLD
This exhibition poster advertises a showing of work by famed American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and depicts a signature modernist figure by Calder in heavy black against a stark red-orange background. Originally created in 1968 to showcase a series of prints at Pace Gallery’s Columbus, Ohio location, this poster details his signature usage of line and primary color and makes for a perfect piece of art history memorabilia. Housed in a silver frame, this poster is unsigned.
About the Artist:
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is best known for his large-scale, innovative sculptures, in addition to the prints he created beginning in 1925. Born to a family of artists, Calder began his art career in the 1920s and spanned decades as well as an expanse of mediums. Calder’s works can be found in every major collection of modern art across the globe.
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Good condition. Minor fading throughout.
25.5″W x 32.5″H
An original signed and numbered lithograph by famed French artist André Masson (1896-1987) reminiscent of Masson’s works in automatic drawing. Featuring graphic marks on a vivid ground of red, blue, yellow, and green, Masson’s surrealistic mark-making invites viewers to investigate the image and form their own meaning within the piece. Framed in silver and signed and numbered at the bottom.
About the Artist: André Masson(1896-1987) was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise and began to study art at the age of 11 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, later moving his studies to Paris. Masson’s early work displayed an interest in Cubism, but he later became more closely associated with Surrealism, becoming more of the more enthusiastic advocates of automatic drawing; a practice in which the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper or canvas. Under the German occupation of France, Masson was labeled a degenerate artist by the Nazi regime and he later moved away from Surrealism, adopting a more structured style with themes of eroticism and violence. After escaping France to America, Masson’s work became an important influence on burgeoning Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, as he worked in Connecticut. Following the war, he returned to France and continued to paint until his death in 1987 at the age of 91.
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