Color lithograph on Velin Arches paper , 56 x 76 cm, limited edition, hand-numbered in pencil 81/250 l.d., signed in pencil p.d. "Weisbuch" Publisher: Atelier Fernand Mourlot in 1971.
Atelier Fernand Mourlot-founded in 1852 in Paris-the most important center of artistic lithography in the world. It was here that such giants as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miró and Braque worked. Fernand Mourlot invited artists directly into the workshop, allowing them to experiment on the lithographic stone.
Claude Weisbuch was an artist for whom lithography was a natural habitat. His style was based on energy, movement and an almost calligraphic line, and Weisbuch loved dynamism. Atelier Mourlot was able to perfectly capture his "jittery" lines and contrasts that make the figures on paper appear to be in constant motion.
Collaboration: Weisbuch regularly collaborated with Mourlot, creating both single collector's editions there,
Claude Weisbuch was born in Thionville, France in 1927 and was a student at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. As a painter, printmaker and lithographer, Weisbuch depicted subjects such as marionettes, harlequins, musicians, horse scenes, opera and dancers. In 1961, he was awarded the Critics' Prize. In 1968, he became a full member of the Association of French Painter-Graphers. His works are dominated by velvety lines. Using only a few earth tones and black and white, Weisbuch emphasized movement and form through line thickness and tone. As a lover of theater and classical music, the artist had a flair for the austere, the ecstatic and the contained. "I like a sketch, an unfinished painting full of mystery," he says. Weisbuch's unique style is that his works look like unfinished sketches, often with little color, but with tremendous vitality of line. Weisbuch's works are in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Staaliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich.
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