Lithography Original Pol Bury Rare Test Before The Letter Maeght 1978

Many posters, or lithographs from the. Personal collection of an art printer. [art of xxe - abstract art - cinematic art - original lithography]. Pol bury, born of hate-saint-pierre (la louvière) in the province of Hainaut, April 26, 1922.

And died in Paris on September 28, 2005, is a Belgian painter and sculptor. Regent of cinematoglyph of the college of pataphysics. Pol bury practiced drawing, painting, sculpture, engraving but also writing.

The construction of fountains, and the production of several experimental short films. He is considered a major contemporary artist, internationally recognized, of the 20th century. It was above all its reliefs and kinetic sculptures that gave the artist his place in the history of art.

Master of the slow movement, he mastered the time in his mobile creations, his fountains that shed both something troubling and a great serenity, amusing and animating any space where water can play: city or country, historic park or contemporary space... Whether they are tubes or bubbles, steel, copper or any other matter, the fountains of bury appeal to the creative genius of the artist. And his technical and mathematical imagination. Pol bury is born to hate-saint-pierre near the louvière. At the age of 16, in 1938, he began art studies.

Painting and drawing, at the art academy of mons. At the same time, he met the poet Wallon achille chavée, a master to think of surrealism in wallonia.

The poet brought pol bury into the surrealist group "breakup" which he founded in 1934. Influenced by yves tanguy, pol adheres, like many members of the group, to communist ideology and paints his first surrealist paintings. After his encounter with renee magritte, he worked in 1940. For the review the collective invention of magritte and rao ul ubac, and participates in.

The international exhibition of surrealism in 1945. In 1946, he directed his painting towards abstraction. It goes beyond the way of painting representative.

Thematic and fixed surrealists and reflect on the pictorial possibilities of color and shape. The incomprehension of his surreal friends forces him to leave them. He then joined the group of the young Belgian painting (founded in 1945) which dissolved in 1948, then entered the revolutionary surrealist group founded by Christian dotremont and josep noiret in 1947, which quickly merged with cobra. From 1948 to 1951, he contributed to the writing and illustration of the journal cobra, and participated in the group's exhibitions.

In 1950, a visit to the exhibition of alexander calder at the gallery maeght greatly influenced him and later encouraged him to engage in sculpture. In 1952, pol bury was one of the founders of the abstract art group, which better corresponds to his artistic research of the moment, based on his admiring approach to the work of mondrian. Some of his paintings are also close to the miró style. In 1953, he gradually abandoned painting and made his first moving plans, panels whose appearance depended on the angle of view.

During that same year, he created, with andré balthazar, the academy of Montbière. The new works of pol bury, which appeared in 1955, were part of cinematism, and were works in motion; the movement was a "symbol of precision and calmness of meditation in action". Bury even participated in the exhibition the movement at the denise gallery born in 1955. With selected materials, wood, cork, stainless steel, brass and copper, he makes his multiplanes, using various elements, balls, discs, and light sets. From 1959 to 1963 he created the series of "punctuations".

In 1961 he moved to Paris. He moved to Paris in 1961 where he made his first personal exhibition in the gallery of iris clert in 1962. Bury began his large series of open and closed volumes in 1963. The following year he left for the United States, taught six months at the University of Berkeley and three months at the college of art and design of minneapolis. In 1964, he represented the belgium at the Biennale de Venise.

In 1966 he exhibited lithographs at the bookstore. The moon (Saint-german's bullock) bets. During the 1970s, two retrospectives of his work circulated respectively.

Through the United States and Europe. In the early 1970s, for the Maeght Foundation, he co-directed four experimental short films.

With the French director, photographer and writer, clovis prevost: a lesson in flat geometry (1971). 8,500 tonnes of iron (1971), 135 km/h (1972) and 25 tonnes of columns (1973).

In 1976, he created his first hydraulic fountain. Always part of the kinetic movement. His sculptures, once silent, are now making noise. Pol bury has constantly designed new steel fountains, all more surprising than each other, using simple shapes, cylinders, spheres, half-spheres, triangles, for various institutions and places such as the Guggenheim Museum of New York or the gardens of the royal palace of betting.

In these fountains, water is used to undo. Unstable balance of steel volumes. Pol bury died on 28 September 2005 in Paris, while an important exhibition of his fountains. Is in progress at the castle of seneffe.

He himself had chosen this place, believing that. "When a fountain is in nature, it reaches its final point, its peak. She's breathing and oxygening. Poster made according to the original composition. Luxury print on beautiful arch paper, before the letter. Printed poster for the exhibition at the maeght gallery. "pol bury - fountains and reliefs".

Beautiful original lithography in colors. Very nice paper of arches.

Format of the sheet about. 75 x 55,5 cm. Very nice composition in black and colors. Very clean and fresh copy.

Small traces of various usual handling, and various minor folds on edges or corners. This is not a reproduction.. this item is in the category "art, antiques\art of xxe, contemporary\estamps, engravings". The seller is "amideslivres" and is located in this country: fr. This item can be shipped to the following country: whole world.

height: 75 cm
type: lithography
width: 55.5 cm
characteristics: unsigned, first print retained by the printer
period: xxeme and contemporary
genre: abstract
theme: kinetic art
support: on paper