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Stamp by Georges Visat
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsExtract of letter by the artist
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Georges Visat
Né en Corse en 1910 dans la maison dont il fit très jeune l'aquarelle montrée ici, le graveur-peintre-éditeur d'art Georges Visat, s’est éteint à Arzacq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) le 2 février 2001. Venu s'y installer dès 1978, l'artiste repose dans le cimetière de cette petite cité béarnaise, entre ciel bleue et prairies vallonnées. Avec respect et en son hommage, une marguerite.
"Mes premiers coups de pinceaux ne sont jamais des certitudes." - Georges Visat
"Georges Visat est un graveur qui excelle, comme l'on peut le constater lorsqu'il se mit à reproduire peintures et dessins d'un grand nombre de maîtres ; il est trop modeste à montrer son propre travail." - Jean Adhémar
"Traduire le monde non visible dans toute son abondance parfois étrange, mais toujours merveilleuse, semblerait être l'emploi que le destin à réservé à son serviteur Visat." - Thomas West
"Je crois que l'artiste dans quelque domaine qu'il soit est une antenne qui perçoit des ordres, dont on ne connaît toujours pas la source." - Georges Visat
"Tu te levais la nuit, attiré par ces toiles blanches qui ne te laissaient que peu de répit, tu opérais et naissait ta magie. Tu me questionnais sur ton travail, intéressé par ma propre perception. La vie était passionnante à tes côtés, merci Papa Chéri." - Armelle Visat
"Je ne suis pas un saint, mais, comme Sainte Thérèse d'Avila, j'ai mes maisons dans le ciel." - Georges Visat
Notes of biography
Georges Visat was born in Corsica in Foce di Mela in 1910. He spends his childhood in Monte Carlo. When he turns 14, he becomes apprentice in a Parisian printing shop where he discovers etching. He is not even 18 when he enrolls in drawing and watercolor classes at the Académie Colarossi and at La Grande Chaumière ; he is interested in all artistic movements. In 1929, Georges Visat enters The Ecole Superieure des Arts Décoratifs and, in 1932, collaborates in a printing shop specialized in printing aquaforte etchings. Laid off in 1936, Visat is going to work for about a year for the subway company, using his freetime to discover museums (« To get familiar with paintings » he will say later).
In 1937, Visat buys back his boss’printing shop and establishes an etching printing shop in the sixth district. Georges Visat will be captured by the enemy at the beginning of the second world war ; he will spend five long years as a prisoner in Germany. Once released, he comes back to Paris in 1945 and immediatly goes back to his printing business. Visat takes care of the Decaris’etchings printing, a major and crucial step for the printer.
Over the years, Georges Visat will meet others etchers, surrealist painters, writers, art and printing people. The Parisian Maeght art gallery asks him to realize interpreted etchings (etchings made after drawings or paintings) for major artists: Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall and Fernand Léger. These works realized together with the artists will allow him to gain and maintain strong relationship with them. Thus, Visat becomes a true friend of Braque, the latter will especially appreciate the interpretation of his own works by the etcher. From 1957, Visat is going to collaborate on a regular basis with the Foreign Affairs Department then with the French Presidency creating during several years greeting cards and menus for these institutions.
In 1961, Georges Visat creates his own publishing firm. He is going to publish or simply print etchings, lithographs and art books with strong friends such as Max Ernst and Dorothéa Tanning, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam, Hans Bellmer, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Man Ray or Jean-Michel Folon. Needless to say that some of them will benefit largely from this relationship to enhance their collection of etched work. Being around the Saint-Germain des Près neighbourhood puts him in touch with people from the litterary world like Raymond Queneau or Louis Scutenaire.
In 1978, the Georges Visat family leaves Paris and settles in the “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”, in his wife Suzanne’s native village.Visat likes to create mysterious atmospheres ; his work is non figurative and expresses his dreams, his moods and unconstrained association of ideas dear to surrealists. In 1985, the artist will be decorated for his « contribution to the French cultural influence worldwide ». Visat’s work is aware of eternity, it does perceive the burden of our mortal nature. Fine exhibitions will show his work in France and abroad.
Georges Visat who used to say « the hand sees, the eye searches » will die in 2001.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « G. Visat, éditeur d'art », J. Adhémar, J. Stein, Ed. Gal. Air France, NY, 1968
- « G. Visat », A. Häggqvist, J. Pierre, Ed. Sonet - Arenthon, Paris, 1976
- « Graveur, éditeur d'art, peintre », T. West, Ed. Musée de Guéthary, 1992
- « G. Visat, promeneur de l'imaginaire », J. Caubet, in La République, 1996
To read from the artist :
- « Dialogue avec Georges Visat », T. West, Chez l'auteur et l'artiste, 1989
Website :
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Stamp by Georges Visat
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsExtract of letter by the artist
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Georges Visat
Né en Corse en 1910 dans la maison dont il fit très jeune l'aquarelle montrée ici, le graveur-peintre-éditeur d'art Georges Visat, s’est éteint à Arzacq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) le 2 février 2001. Venu s'y installer dès 1978, l'artiste repose dans le cimetière de cette petite cité béarnaise, entre ciel bleue et prairies vallonnées. Avec respect et en son hommage, une marguerite.
"Mes premiers coups de pinceaux ne sont jamais des certitudes." - Georges Visat
"Georges Visat est un graveur qui excelle, comme l'on peut le constater lorsqu'il se mit à reproduire peintures et dessins d'un grand nombre de maîtres ; il est trop modeste à montrer son propre travail." - Jean Adhémar
"Traduire le monde non visible dans toute son abondance parfois étrange, mais toujours merveilleuse, semblerait être l'emploi que le destin à réservé à son serviteur Visat." - Thomas West
"Je crois que l'artiste dans quelque domaine qu'il soit est une antenne qui perçoit des ordres, dont on ne connaît toujours pas la source." - Georges Visat
"Tu te levais la nuit, attiré par ces toiles blanches qui ne te laissaient que peu de répit, tu opérais et naissait ta magie. Tu me questionnais sur ton travail, intéressé par ma propre perception. La vie était passionnante à tes côtés, merci Papa Chéri." - Armelle Visat
"Je ne suis pas un saint, mais, comme Sainte Thérèse d'Avila, j'ai mes maisons dans le ciel." - Georges Visat
Art movements
+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
All art movements
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