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May 4, 2018 - May 17, 2018
Artist: James Alan Davie (Grangemouth United Kingdom 1920)
Title: Olympische Spiele München 1972 -Class 2
Medium: color offset lithograph - Plate-Signed By The Artist
Provenience: F. Bruckmann KG, Munich/Kennedy Press Germany
ARTIST: James Alan Davie, as son of a painter and etcher. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1940. While in the army in WW2, he concentrated on his other artistic talents as poet and jazz musician(alto- and tenorsax, piano); member of the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, touring in England.
By the 1960´s, Davie had works in various important collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Contemporary Art Society, England, and many more. First encounter and collaboration in 1973 with Tony Oxley, the European pioneer of Improvised Music experimenting with amplified drumset (1969). Public performances at Gimpel Fils gallery, Tate Gallery, Maison de Culture, followed.
"He developed his own painting philosophy, and in the 1950´s, his introduction to Zen Buddhism led him to understand the artist as a figure that embodies both ´the intuitive creator and the intellectual spectator´. His success in the visual arts continued while he developed his musical career in the 1970´s, and his work continues to have a wide appeal today."
Original Vintage Offset Lithograph Collection 1972 Olympische Speiel Munchen Series (Editions Olympia 1972 GmbH)
The choice of the artists who were to be invited had to be made along these lines: A precise study of the market was needed at the time. Established and avant-garde trends in art ought to be represented in the series: expressionism, surrealism, neorealism, pop-art/op-art. The artists had to be experienced in designing posters; their high artistic quality had to be world famous.
This series of vintage offset lithographs consists of 28 designs by artists: Otl Aicher - Serge Poliakoff - Hans Hartung - Marino Marini - Oskar Kokoschka - Charles Lapicque - Jan Lenica - Fritz Winter - Horst Antes - Shusaka Arakawa - Eduardo Chillida - Victor Vasarely - Piero Dorazio - Pierre Soulages - Otmar Alt - Josef Albers - Allen Jones - Allan D'Arcangelo - David Hockney - Valerio Adami - Tom Wesselmann - R.B. Kitaj - Richard Smith - Max Bill - Jacob Lawrence - Alan Davie - Peter Philipps - Paul Wunderlich - F. Hundertwasser
The art posters were original produced in three different valences:
Printed October 1967, Size 64 cm x 102 cm (25.2 in x 40.2in)
Class 1 - Original graphics: Hand-printed by the artist from the original plate on high-quality paper, signed and limited to 200 copies per design
Class 2 - Original posters: Hand finished further impressions from the same original plate on slightly lower quality paper but heavier than reproduction; the plate is signed, but not numbered. The original poster edition should not exceed 4,000 copies per design.
Class 3 - Original Reproductions of the original graphic: Produced by off-set or photogravure process on poster paper.
The offset lithograph is guaranteed to be in very good condition or better. The vintage collectable work of art and may show minor handling, aging or original printing defects none of which affect the image.
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