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Kurt Seligmann
I am fascinated by the precision and the grace of engraved lines.
Kurt Seligmann was born in Bale, Switzerland in 1900. He is hardly 18 years old when he takes part in his first group exhibition at the Kunsthalle in his hometown; he will exhibit here regularly. Seligmann takes classes at the School of Fine Arts of Geneva where he meets Pierre Couthion. He becomes friends with Alberto Giacometti in 1920. After returning to Bale, he leaves for Paris where he . . .
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past. These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier
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Une écriture...
1938 Original etching, unsigned as for all the edition, realized for the book "Une écriture lisible". Ed. Les Chroniques du jour, Paris. Mason n°64
The shepherd
1934 Original etching, aquaforte and aquatinte unsigned. Second state, for the book "Les vagabondages héraldiques". Mason n° 50 I
Carnaval
1933 Original etching, unsigned aquaforte, for the book "Protubérances cardiaques". Ed. des Chroniques du Jour, Paris. Mason n° 34
Les vagabondages...
1934 Book, in-folio, 15 new texts of Pierre Courthion illustrated with 15 etchings, original aquaforte hors-texte by the artist. Ed. des Chroniques du... Monod, Vol. I n° 3269
The hermit
1934 Original etching, aquaforte, signed and dated in ink. Essay proof for the book "Les vagabondages héraldiques". Title : L'ermite Mason n° 39
Sorcière II
1934 Original etching, unsigned. First state, for the book "Les vagabondages héraldiques". Mason n° 52 II
DLM n° 19
1949 Issue "Derrière le Miroir". Texts by Georges Duthuit and others, illustrated with 3 lithographs in colors and with 2 lithographs in black. Second... Cat. "Derrière le Miroir, 1946-1982", p. 17Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Kurt Seligmann, l’oeuvre gravé », R. M. Mason, Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’art et d’Histoire - Ed. du Tricorne, Genève, 1982
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Bibliographic track & more
To read about the artist :
- « Abstraction-Création », revue, 5 n°, Ed. Les Tendances nouvelles, 1932-1936
- European Artists Teaching in America », cat. Addison Gallery, Mass., 1941
- « Artists in Exile », cat. d'expo. coll., Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY, 1942
- « First Papers of Surrealism », cat., Ed. C. C. of French Relief Societies, 1942
- « Derrière le Miroir n° 19 », Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1949
- « Encyclopédie du surréalisme », R. Passeron, Somogy Ed. d'Art, 1975
- « K. Seligmann, Ausstellung », cat. Galerie Schreiner, Bâle, 1978
- « K. Seligmann, Leben und Werk », S. E. Hauser, Scwabe & Co Verlag, Bâle, 1997
- « The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, », J. M. Marter, vol. 1, Oxford U. Press, 2011
- « Kurt Seligmann - Monograph », S. E. Hauser et autres, Ed. Weinstein Gallery, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Le Miroir de la Magie », Ed. Fasquelle, Paris, 1956 (Nomb. Editions)
- « Kurt Seligmann, planches gravées », Ed. Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris, 1998
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fictionnal 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.
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A tribute to Kurt Seligmann
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Kurt Seligmann s’éteint le 2 janvier 1962, à l’age de 61 ans, d’un accident avec son propre fusil de chasse devant sa ferme de Sugar Loaf au 23 White Oak Drive (Orange County, Etat de New York). Il repose, auprès de son épouse Arlette qui lui survécut 30 ans, dans le cimetière ancien et historique du lieu qui fait partie intégrante de la propriété d’origine de l’artiste, maintenant Fondation régionale. En hommage à sa mémoire, avec respect, nous y déposons la fleur d’un iris.
"Kurt Seligman est orfèvre et surtout poète. Il agence pointes, pis et tourbillons de façon fantasque et avec un humour baroque. C’est le plus parfait maître de ballet pour danses des morts." - Jean Cassou
"Je n’ai aucune ambition de devenir un maître de la ligne droite ou un illustrateur de ma psyché." - Kurt Seligmann
". . . fusils et fusées d’un refusé." - Marcel Duchamp
"Il y a, dans le cas de Seligmann, des particularités qui distinguent cet artiste et l’isolent du nombre des peintres-graveurs de sa génération : c’est la faculté d’amener le rêve et l’imagination dans une réalité fantastique et la violente résonance de son oeuvre." - Pierre Courthion
"Je trouve souvent que le blanc et noir suffit comme stimulation des inventions et variations sans limites." - Kurt Seligmann
"Holbein, Erasmr, Frobenius, Melanchton. Il me semble entendre encore, au creux de mon oreille, les bourdonnements sourds et sévères des énormes tambours qui retentissent le jour du Carnaval de Bâle." - Kurt Seligmann
Mouvements de l'art
- + SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
- + ABSTRACTION-CREATION / 1931-1938 / Etienne Béothy, Frantisek Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, etc.
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