Jean Messagier - Crochets pour l’été

Original, midcentury poster dated 1975 from Gallerie Lovreglio in Nice, France. Signed by the artist Jean Messagier (1920-1999), multi-faceted artist. Measures: 17" W × 1" D × 24" H "Like the meanders of the Doubs so dear to Jean Messagier, the furrows that the artists on the paths of art history are sometimes complex and tortuous. Messagier, famous since the 1950s, exhibited all over the world, a friend of painters, rockstars and poets, began the 1980s with a retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palace (Paris) which then marks, paradoxically, the beginning of a certain forgetfulness. The reasons are many times that today the work of this immense artist is partly forgotten, in all unknown cases, and is probably the object of a misunderstanding. Messagier, abstract? Arise then these images of colorful tracery, this so-called "tile washer" painting, which was, he, is true, that of her first successes and her consecration, but which is only one of facets of a gigantic and protean work that has endlessly put itself in danger and to reinvent herself. The object of the retrospective imagined at the Musée de Dole in 2019 is clearly to show that Messagier was working beyond the issues of figuration and of abstraction, in an urgency to paint, to draw, to create, which has as principal obsession to respond to the cruel creativity of nature. Messagier, springtime specialist, ecologist almost before the hour, experimenter of frost painting winter, poet of the sap and pollen, draws his breath in that, vital, libidinal of nature. It's the same energy that pushed him to touch everything, with a freedom and a lack of interest manifest for opinion or criticism. It does not matter if we say crazy - on the contrary - Messagier the almost American abstract painter never finished with the figure or the figuration and allowed herself as early as the 1970s to both summon images from the popular culture like Goldorak, the Marsupilami, Betty Boop, glamorous figures like Lady Di or Greta Garbo, to jostle her masters by quoting Delacroix, Matisse, Picasso ... with total irreverence. These years 1970-1980, where will face jovial triviality, fried eggs, radishes, a thousand giant leafs...

Hand signed limited edition lithograph entitled "Les Jeux De L'ete" by Corneille, circa 1966. The print is in very good vintage condition and is numbered 48/100; the piece is signed ...

Jean Marc Bustamante (French b. 1951) A large format color coupler print of a beautiful European landscape juxtaposed with a an abandoned property. Edition 5 of 6. Custom crate incl...

Circular ceramic platter in the manner of Jean Cocteau. This bold colorful piece features the portrait of a figurative subject with a pronounced nose, pink skin, red lipstick, long b...

"Luna I" by Jean François Reboul : Coloured concrete sculpture for wall. Dimensions: D 53 cm x H 16 cm D 21 inches x H 6,3 inches Jean-François Reboul is a f...

Piranha Imbroglio Perpetual Calendar by Jean Pierre Vitrac from the 1970s. This distinctive calendar showcases a modernist design with a grid of sty...

Jean Dewasne artist edition serigraph and dedicated reverse ,in black lacquer frame. Jean Dewasne (1921-1999). (b Lille, 21 May 1921). French painter, writer and sculptor. He began painting at the age of 12 and was producing pointillist works at the age of 18. He studied architecture for two years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a preparation for his painting. In about 1943 he began painting abstract works, and he remained an abstract painter for the rest of his career. He was associated with the group of abstract artists who exhibited at the Galerie Denise René in Paris, including Hans Hartung, Nicolas de Stäel and Serge Poliakoff and he himself exhibited there from 1945-1956. Together with Sonia Delaunay, Hans Arp, Antoine Pevsner...

Beautiful continuous black line drawing of a woman by Jean Negulesco. Vintage color serigraph print with pink background and blind stamp in corner....

Beautiful continuous black line drawing of a woman by Jean Negulesco. Vintage color serigraph print with blind stamp in corner. New custom maple frame with UV plexi.

Vintage Color Lithograph by Patricia Jean Burg. Canadian artist and printmaker, active in the United States, born 1934. Very decorative work of ar...