JUAN GRIS Original Mourlot? Printed Lithograph Cubist Woman Gertrude Stein Book

Description: (Illustrated Title Sheet) Original Mourlot Printed Lithograph By Juan Gris Title: (Illustrated Title Sheet) Artist: Juan Gris Date: 1926/1973 Medium: Lithograph Dimensions: Sheet measures 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches inches. Condition: Very good condition with minor roughness to binding edge. Note: The color lithographic plate printed (by Mourlot?) for the 1973 Something Else Press edition of Gertrude Stein's, 'As a Wife has a Cow'. From the second printing of Gertrude Stein's first work published in France. The 1926 first printing featured four soft-toned and subtle lithographs by Juan Gris. The book represents one of the most celebrated relationships in twentieth-century art; additionally it links the publisher Kahnweiler, who was Gris's dealer and the owner of the Galerie Simon. Virtually all of Gris's graphic work appeared in the five books published by Kahnweiler. The final print in the book is the last one that Gris ever made (he died the next year). (Bibliographic description): New York: Something Else Press, Inc., 1973. Facsimile Very Good with no dust jacket First edition thus. Printed, sewn wraps. Illustrated with lithographic prints by Juan Gris. Edition printed in red and black inks. Square 8vo. ........................................... Shipping @ $6.95 anywhere Mainland USA; expedited and insured shipping available. International bidders are welcome but please note that painting will be shipped without the frame to save postage costs. International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer’s responsibility. Please check prior to bidding/buying concerning shipping charges as well as with your country’s customs office to determine what any additional costs will be. Fernand Mourlot has been synonymous with the resurgence of lithography – a process which under his influence, attracted the greatest artistic masters of our time. The medium provided a new avenue of expression, a new realm of possibilities for the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miró, Braque, Dubuffet, Léger, and Giacometti to enrich their own work as well as fine art in general. Under the guidance of Mourlot, modern lithography developed a personality and discovered a future. With a lithograph printshop on the rue Chabrol, one of the most popular neighborhoods in East Paris, the studio focused largely on commercial work and theater and cabaret posters. While Mourlot already had a name in printing before the outbreak of the First World War, it wasn’t until the Delacroix Exhibition in 1930 that one of the most important features of Fernand Mourlot’s domain was revealed, the art poster. Per Mourlot’s ingenuity, the exhibition poster was prepared and produced as a work of art in its own right for the first time. In addition, Mourlot cultivated the lithograph as a painter’s medium. Initially limited to illustration, the lithograph was invented by Aloys Senefelder at the end of the 18th century. Although immediately accepted in the highest critic’s circles, the medium did not flourish until its adaptation by Cheret, Lautrec, Bonnard, and Vuillard who found a unique form of expression in its’ modern technique and bold colors. Fernand Mourlot identified this niche and employed its evident popularity by inviting artists to work directly on the stone, as if creating a poster. The first painters to create lithographs at the Mourlot Frères studio were Vlaminck and Utrillo, and for many years they would be the only ones. Further, he experimented with lithographic inks and colors, carefully dosing the varnishes and essences, and analyzing the resistance of the resulting tones to the effect of light. In 1937, the studio created two posters (based on paintings by Matisse and Bonnard) for the Maitres de l’Art indépendant exhibition at the Petit Palais. The posters were of such excellent quality that it was clear they had attained the height of printing mastery. In the same year, the studio began a fruitful collaboration with the editor Tériade, founder of the legendary review Verve. It was then that Mourlot assisted Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, Rouault and Miró in the creation of important lithographs for the six editions after the Second World War. "Among all the different techniques for illustrating text, the lithograph is perhaps the one that best complements poetry." - Paul Valéry While some of the most beautiful art books by modern painters were produced on the rue Chabrol; the lithograph would remain an art form for initiates, not reaching its full embodiment until after the liberation. In 1945, Pablo Picasso walked into the Mourlot studio. With his graphic genius and prodigious inventiveness, Picasso proceeded to lend a new dimension to the lithographic process as well as his own art. “He came like he was going to battle,” Mourlot remarked, a battle that would last four months and be repeated at different points during the next several years. A corner of the studio became Picasso’s private domain and there he created nearly four hundred lithographs between 1945 and 1969. Bolstered by the press-operators Tutins and Célestin, he worked mercilessly, inventing the most complex and extravagant techniques, the inherent difficulties of which were dissolved in the man’s customary brio. Such display of artistic liberty from this period can be seen in “La Colombe de la Paix.”

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