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| Artist: Henry Valensi, French 1883-1969 |
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Plate: des.04
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| Title: Plate IV |
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Description: Condition
A
Avant-grade Pochoir (Hand coloured) original
lithograph from "Dessins" printed in Paris, issued
by A. Calavas at the Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, 1920
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat, with framing
labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat via Fedex.
Certificate of Authenticity.
See our Terms of Sale
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| Sheet Size: |
11 1/4 in x 15 in |
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31 cm x 38 cm |
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| Price: Sold |
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From the Art Deco portfolio "Dessins". One of the series
of pochoir design portfolios, with twenty pochoir plates, issued by
A. Calavas at the Librarie Des Arts Decoratifs during the 1920's.
"An uncommon and brilliant Futurist portfolio"
Henry Valensi born in Algeria, moved to Paris in 1898 and studied
at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris in the studios of Jules Lefebrve
and Tony Robert-Fleury. Before World War I, Valensi traveled throughout
Europe and in Russia, Turkey, and Greece. This voyage greatly inspired
him. In 1912 he participated in the creation of the Section d’Or,
along side the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Picabia, Dumont and Gleizes
among others.
After the war he began traveling again in Europe and Africa. Valensi
was the leader of the group of artists that he himself named the “Musicalistes.”
Painting during the 1930s through the 1950s, the “Musicalistes” interpreted
the rhythms of music in two dimensions through abstract shapes. Valensi
organized and participated in twenty-three Salon de Peinture Musicaliste
exhibitions in Paris, the first one being in 1932 at Galerie Renaissance.
He exhibited in the Salon des Orientalistes from 1905 and in the Salon
des Indépendants in Paris from1907. Valensi also participated in many
other Musicaliste exhibitions in cities across Europe such as Prague,
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Budapest, Bratislavia, and Limoges.
After World War II he participated in the Salon des Realités Nouvelles
in 1947 of which he later became the committee’s vice-president. Valensi
also had some personal exhibitions: Vichy, 1909; Galerie la Boétie,
Paris 1913; exhibition organized by Marinetti in 1923. In 1973 the
first retrospective of the Salons Musicalistes was held in Paris at
the Galerie Hexagramme, and Valensi was then represented in an exhibition
Paris-Moscou at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1979.
Pochoir, French for stencil, defines a technique of print making
popular in France in the early 1900s. It is a labor intensive process
of applying brilliant color by hand using a series of cutout stencils.
Each plate is an original print using up to thirty stencils in one
image. All are hand colored and most are signed in the plate by the
illustrator.
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