Auburn Hills, MI
Details
- Dimensions
- 9.45ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 11.81ʺH
- Styles
- Modern
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Music
- Artist
- Jacques Villon
- Period
- 1960s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Lithograph
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Good Previously owned and used, showing natural wear, including discoloration and cracks consistent with age. May have slight soiling, but … moreGood Previously owned and used, showing natural wear, including discoloration and cracks consistent with age. May have slight soiling, but no structural issues. less
- Description
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Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon …
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Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1965. Published by Librairie académique Perrin et Cie, Paris; printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, July 22, 1965. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), The typography of this book is due to L'Imprimerie nationale. Mr. André Brignole being Director, and Paul Lajun as head of typography. The composition was made with the Garamont corps 20 propriété exclusive du grand Établissement d'État sur les presses. The printing was completed on July 22, 1965. Color lithographs and black drawings as well as manuscripts were pulled on Fernand Mourlot's presses. Henri Jadoux was the director in charge of the work. It was taken from this book XXXV examples on vélin B. F. K. de Rives numbered from I to XXV, accompanied by a suite of lithographs and an original etching signed by Jacques Villon; CMLXXV examples on vélin B. F. K. de Rives numbered from XXVI to M, accompanied by a series of lithographs V̅ examples on Arjomari vélin numbered from MI to V̅I̅, and finally CC examples out of trade.
JACQUES VILLON (1875-1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Among Villon's greatest achievements as a printmaker was his creation of a purely graphic language for cubism – an accomplishment that no other printmaker, including his fellow cubists Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque, could claim. less
Auburn Hills, MI
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