Un Lot De Joyeuses Affiches Portfolio of 10 Prints, 1987

Year1987

Hand Signed 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedDeluxe edition 

Purchased fromGallery 1990 

Provenance / HistoryPublisher 

Story / Additional InfoThis is deluxe edition, big margins, embossed paper. This portfolio consists of 10 color etchings and aquatints by Max Papart. Used printer of Miro. Each piece is signed and numbered 39/50. These 25 pieces with a large margins, measuring 36 x 28 inches. The portfolio are loose in mint condition inside of cloth folder with ribbon closures. Rare and collectible. This is a deluxe edition and the paper is embossed. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID86983

Max Papart - France

Art Brokerage: Max Papart French Artist: b. 1911-1994. Max Papart's paintings and graphics are suffused with the sunny humor and bright colors of the French Riviera, where he was born in 1911. Working in a Cubist style, Max Papart depicts circus scenes, flirting couples, soaring birds, and similar cheerful subjects with flat, overlapping planes of contrasting colors and textures which suggest many levels of depth. Often he also achieves what has been called a "time window" effect, through which the viewer sen'sses the past or future. This is not to say that Max Papart is simply a purveyor of superficial entertainment. For all their decorative gaiety, Papart works also force the viewer to think. As the noted critic André Parinaud put it, "We are going to rediscover Max Papart as one of the masters of the second cubist generation. Original paintings wanted.