Album No. 1 (Collection décors et couleurs)

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Album No. 1 (Collection décors et couleurs)

Artist Georges Valmier French, 1885-1937

Publisher Aux Éditions Albert Levy, Paris, [1929?]

Printer [S.l.], France

Date[about 1930]

Dimensionsportfolio: 17 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (454 x 349mm)
page: 17 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (438 x 340mm)

MediumOriginal prints: 21 pochoir prints (20 plates, plus portfolio cover Text: letterpress Paper: buff wove paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1980.1011A-U

Not on View

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, European Expressionist and Cubist Works on Paper: 1900-1930, December 2, 2011-March 11, 2012 (University of Toledo Student Exhibition).Label TextGeorges Valmier was a painter and stage designer who flourished in Paris during the 1920s. When he became involved with the theater, designing costumes and sets, he developed a vocabulary of dancing, patterned shapes and bold, vibrant colors—a decorative version of Cubism. In this collection of stencil prints (pochoir), he drew on the style of flat sections of color and complex overlapping layers that Picasso had deployed since about 1915 (see Picasso, Person Seated in this exhibition). The striking coloring of this album of 20 prints was executed by Jean Saudé, the foremost practitioner of the art of pochoir.