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| Andres Derain: Portrait Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Dimensions: 14” x 10.5”, framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £600 |
Georges Braque: Figure (fragment) Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Dimensions: 14” x 10.5” framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £750 |
Georges Rouault: Tete de Jeune Fille Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Dimensions: 14” x 10.5” framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £750 |
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| Henri Matisse: Portrait Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Signed in the plate by Henri Matisse Dimensions: 14” x 10.5”, framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £750 |
Pierre Bonnard: Jeune fille dans une barque Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Dimensions: 14” x 10.5”, framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £750 |
Paul Klee: Tete d’enfant Original lithograph printed by Mourlot Freres Dimensions: 14” x 10.5”, framed size: 19” x 16” Price: £750 |
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 141 (Josef Herman), 46.5cm x 37.5cm - £175. |
Original lithographs Eight signed lithographs by Josef Herman. Free delivery anywhere in the UK. All sizes are the FRAMED size. Prices inclusive of ash frame with black mount. Click on appropriate image (on left) for title, size and price. JOSEF HERMAN RA. OBE. (1911-2000) was one of the outstanding artists working in Britain in the second half of the Twentieth Century. His drawings, paintings and prints are highly collectable. He grew up in a Jewish community near Warsaw in the years between the two world wars; dark years of pograms, oppression and cruelty. His family and that whole community were to be completely destroyed by the Nazis. Remarkably, Josef Herman had escaped, first to Belgium to study painting, then to France and finally to Britain. He first exhibited here during the war years. His story is memorably told in his autobiography Related Twilights. During his time spent in the south Wales mining valleys and the farmlands of Suffolk, his vision of a common humanity matured. He developed an individual style of figuration - rendering closely-observed working people in an expensive and emotionally-charged way by his deftness of line and shading. Welsh miners, English farm-labourers and fishermen, Spanish or Mexican workers, all were celebrated for their strength or endurance; a survivor recognised the qualities of survival. He was a friend of Jacob Epstein's in the older man's last years, was encouraged by the sculptor's monumental forms and learned to share his admiration for African carvings. THE LITHOGRAPHS he was commissioned to produce for the Golden Cockerel edition of The Poems of Catullus in 1981 have all the vitality and universality of his strongest work. They explore further some of his abiding themes: the tree of life; an exuberant dancing girl; two lovers embrace; three figures meet on their street and become animated; in his studio an artists and his model are juxtaposed with a wit that reminds one of Picasso; a solitary woman sits deep in thought; two moonlit birds are rendered with the deft economy of the mature Matisse. The proposed fine art limited edition book was not to appear. The complete edition of 99 has recently been located, each print signed by the artist. Professor Tony Curtis Editor of the new edition of Related Twilights |
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 142 (Josef Herman), 46.5cm x 37.5cm - £175. |
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