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May 4, 2018 - May 17, 2018
Artist: Charles Lapicque (1898-1988)
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: Bron on October 6, 1898 in Theize Charles spent his childhood in Epinal and visited Brittany for the first time in 1900. In 1909 he began living in Paris. After fightin in the artillery in the First World War, he entered the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures Academy in Paris and began an engineer there. Throughout his training he felt drawn to art and spent most of his personal weekends painting. He painted his first landscape in Caen in 1920. He continued to study as an autodidact in 1928.
Charles Lapicque was only able to give up his job as an engineer through a contract with the Gallery Louis Carré in 1943. From that time on, he dedicated himself completely to art and created many works with the liberation of Paris as their theme. He also travelled to Brittany in 1945. The artist received the "Prix Raoul Dufy" of the Biennial of Venice in 1953. In the following years, Lapicque travelled to Venice four times and painted the villas, their gardens and inside furnishings, as well as the gables and facades of the churches.
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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