Wols en personne | Aquarelles et dessins de Wols (Watercolours and Drawings by Wols)
Wols, Otto [Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri-Pierre Roché, Werner Haftmann] Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 1913 - 1 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognised in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstraction, one of the most influential artists of the Tachisme movement.
(Book #ID 113451)
Published by Delpire éditeur Paris First Edition 1963. 1963.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter black cloth, colour illustrated glazed white paper covered boards, blocked and lettered white back. Folio. 13'' x 12''. Wol's artistic work was created exclusively in France, where he had emigrated in 1932. Inspired by Surrealism and the Bauhaus masters and without professional training, after a short period as a photographer, he first created surrealist and later informal drawings and paintings. In particular, the oil works of his later phase influenced French and German painters of the Art Informel. Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers appreciated him as a book illustrator. Contains 79 pp French text with among other things, 12 black framed and mounted watercolours reproduced on removable pages, 15 monochrome drawings between each removable colour plate, 3 photographs to the text section, two extra white framed mounted cards stored within a triangular canvas pocket inside the rear cover. Lightly repaired fraying of the cloth to the spine edges, contents in Fine condition, no slip case. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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