Guiramand, Le port de New York, Prints from the Mourlot Press (after) 1964

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Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Prints from the Mourlot … more Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964. Published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; printed by Mourlot, Paris, October 27, 1964. Excerpted from the album, This album was finished in Paris on 27th October 1964. The original lithographs and the reproductions were printed on the presses of Mourlot. The L'Imprimerie nationale, Director André Brignole, was responsible for the typography. The edition has been limited to MM examples on Vélin d'Arches and CC on Vélin de Rives reserved for the artists, the staff and the friends of the Imprimerie Mourlot.

PAUL GUIRAMAND (1926-2007) painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in Saint-Quentin in northern France. His parents moved to the modest 19th arrondissement of Paris in 1933. In 1943, Guiramand entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, just across the Seine from the Louvre, the museum that became the primary source of his artistic education. In 1951, His artistic production is much influenced by Picasso, Matisse and Bonnard. He uses bright colours and strong brushstrokes. are exhibited at the Musée d'Art Modern de Ville de Paris, the National Library in France, the Besançon Fine Arts Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Otani Museum in Japan, the Tainan less