Herve Telemaque, France-Haiti (1937-2022) “Pour Joan Prats 77" Lithograph 14/99

Description: Estate FindHervé Télémaque,Haiti-France(1937-2022)“Pour Joan Prats, 1977”Numbered Lithograph 14/99France We offer a limited edition lithograph by the French artist Hervé Télémaque titled “Pour Joan Prats, 1977” depicting a horse saddle superimposed on a pair of baskets hanging from a wooden yoke.The lithograph is numbered in pencil “14/99” at the lower left corner and signed and dated In pencil “H. Télémaque 77” at the lower right corner. The artist also included his initials T.H. in the image at the upper left quadrant. An impressed watermark is viable at the lower right edge of the paper.First opened in 1976, Galeria Joan Prats featured the works of Hervé Télémaque for the month of October in 1977. Today, Galeria Joan Prats is considered one of the pioneers of international contemporary art in Barcelona, Spain.The lithograph is float mounted on a brown mat board with the raw edges of the paper exposed. The metal frame is brass in coloration over a wooden substrate.The glazed framing measures 29” in width and 37” in height. The paper measures 22” in width and 30” in height.As seen in the photographs, there is an area of minor browning at the middle of the bottom edge of the paper.The 1977 lithograph by Hervé Télémaque is presented in excellent vintage condition. Hervé Télémaque (1937-2022) The Haitian-born artist Hervé Télémaque died outside Paris last November at the age of 85. He moved from Port-au-Prince to New York City in 1957, at the tail end of Abstract Expressionism, and the discrimination he encountered in the United States influenced both the style and substance of his work. In 1961, he relocated to Paris, where he became a member of the Narrative Figuration movement, a more politically engaged cousin of Pop Art. Known for his vibrant creations confronting racism and colonialism, he received a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2015: Hervé Télémaque: 1959-1964.-By Tracy Kendrick Hervé Télémaque (born on November 5, 1937 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti), was a French painter of Haitian origin, associated with the surrealism and the narrative figuration movements. He lived and worked in Paris since 1961. He passed away on November 10, 2022. Following a health problem, he had to give up his hopes of competing in sports. In 1957, when François Duvalier came to power, he left Haiti for New York and joined the Art Student's League until 1960, when his teacher, the painter Julian Levi, encouraged his artistic vocation. During his stay in the United States, where he frequents museums, he was simultaneously intellectually nourished by abstract expressionism, then surrealism, as used and reinterpreted by American artists (De Kooning, Lam, etc.), and in particular by the influence of Arshile Gorky. As early as 1959, his painting entitled Sirène (Musée Sainte-Croix) marked his uniqueness. Hervé Télémaque wants to be reality-based and escape abstraction: even the title refers to his daily life, evoking the boats sirens he heard from his room in Brooklyn Heights. With L'Annonce faite à Marie (Musée des beaux-arts de Dole, FNAC), which recalls his marriage the same year with Maël Pilié, the theme of sexuality, especially present at the beginning of his work, is announced (Histoire sexuelle, 1960 ; Ciel de lit n°3, 1962, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice ; Femme merveille, 1963,Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne). He was disappointed by the segregationist atmosphere in the United States¹. (Toussaint Louverture in New York, 1960, Dole Museum). In 1961, he came to France and settled in Paris. He frequents the surrealists there, without formally joining the group. But it was in the precepts of population art (comic strip, use of the episcope, then in 1966 use of acrylic) that he truly found his very particular way, while defending European creation, more critical of society. Since 1962, he took part in the adventure of Narrative Figuration, bringing together artists such as Bernard Rancillac, Eduardo Arroyo, Peter Klasen, Öyvind Fahlström, Jacques Monory, which the critic Gérald Gassiot-Talabot gathered in 1964, at the request of Télémaque and Rancillac, in an exhibition entitled "Mythologies quotidiennes". From 1962 to 1964, he produced one of his most original series, in particular in the form of diptychs, where pieces of anatomy, accompanied by visual metaphors named "fictions"; (cross, arrow, weapon, underwear, urn, mask) and comments, sometimes simply written in chalk or pencil, flow on an initially white background (Le voyage, 1962 ; Portrait de famille, 1962, Fondation Gandur pour l'Art; Etude pour une carte du tendre, 1963;My Darling Clementine, 1963, MNAM, etc.). In 1964, the artist adopted the clear line; inspired by Hergé (Petit Célibataire un peu nègre et assez joyeux, 1964, MNAM), then introduced objects on the canvas in 1966 with his series of "Combine paintings", evoking those of Robert Rauschenberg (1953–1964) and even more, those contemporary to Martial Raysse (Confidence, 1965, Fondation Gandur; Touareg, pèlerinage avec ressemblances, Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, 1966. Between 1968 and 1969, he stopped painting to practice only assemblage with his "lean sculptures", like Duchamp's ready-made sculptures. In sculpture, as in painting, it is a question of making ordinary things or objects surprising, of opening up possibilities of multiple meanings to icons or fragments of icons, originally univocal. Télémaque, returns to painting in 1970, with his series "Les Passages" and "Suites à Magritte", adopting a refined style formed by solid colours (Caca-Soleil !, 1970, MNAM, of duchampian spirit), and indulges in drawing and collages from 1974, with his series "Selles" in 1977, then "Maisons rurales" in 1980. In 1973, he returned for the first time to Haiti to see his mother, where he resourced his imaginary. Then in 1976 he began large acrylic paintings, mainly with new shapes in ellipse or tondo, in view of the exhibition organized in 1976 by the ARC at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 1985 he became a naturalized French citizen and, among other public purchasing orders Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in 1984, RER station of the Musée d'Orsay in 1986), he received an order for a 13 meters long monumental mural Vallée de l'Omo, created in 1986 for the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie de La Villette and that also for Maman at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière. In 1986, he also had his first solo exhibition in the Caraïbe with about twenty paintings exhibited at the Casa de las Americas, during the 2nd Biennale de La Havana. From the 1990s onwards, Télémaque continued his research through large-format charcoal drawings, initiated in 1992, and surprising low-reliefs, where the jigsaw replaces the pencil. Marked by the illness, then the death of his mother in 1993, and undoubtedly by the memory of the voodoo that was reigning in Haiti, he approaches the theme of mourning in a darker way (bat, skull) and do his own magic in creating blends mixing coffee grounds with coloured pigments, to give them a sensual heaviness. After the exhibition "Charcoal and coffee grounds – Mourning: drawing, the object", at the Louis Carré & Cie gallery in 1994 (catalogue prefaced by Yves Michaud), Hervé Télémaque exhibits "Works after nature"; (catalogue prefaced by Philippe Curval), at the Electricité de France foundation in 1995. His double exhibition at the Foire internationale d'art contemporain (Louis Carré & Cie gallery stand and Marwan Hoss gallery stand) was followed by four retrospectives, first at Electra – EDF Foundation in Paris, at the "Electrical Workshop"; in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1997, at IVAM in Valence (Spain) in 1998, then at the Tanlay Art Centre (Yonne) in summer 1999. The 2000s saw a return to African sources, which the "negritude"; movement claims to be its own, and to a fresh look at French political events, possibly tinged with humour. In 2000, he returned to an activity that he had not practiced for many years, book illustration. After several stays in Africa, Télémaque produced a series of acrylic paintings entitled "Trottoirs d'Afrique", presented in 2001 at the Louis Carré & Cie gallery (catalogue prefaced by Gérard Durozoi). Nevertheless, and despite a career path which is naturally part of the evolution and intellectual questioning of 20th century modern art, the evocation of his country and origins, even metaphorically indirect, never departed from his work (Afrique et Toussaint Louverture à New York, 1960; Venus Hottentote et Comics pour Harlem, 1962 ; My Darling Clementine and Black Magic, 1963; Voir ELLE et Banania 1, 1964; Convergence, 1966; Port-au-Prince, le fils prodigue, 1970; Le Silence veille à Saint-Marc (Haiti), 1975; Afrique, 1980; La Mère-patrie, 1981; Mère Afrique, 1982; Le Voyage d'Hector Hyppolite en Afrique n°1, 2000 ; Deep South, 2001, etc.). Fonds d'actualité n°1 (at the MNAM) is an indirect tribute to the satirical cartoonists Plantu and Pancho, with the figure of Jacques Chirac, then "elected as in Africa" with 82.21% of the votes. In 2002, the IUFM of Lyon made an exhibition around this large painting and coffee grounds objects. On the occasion of the publication of a first monograph by Anne Tronche at Flammarion, in "La Création contemporaine"; collection, Louis Carré & Cie gallery presents on its stand at Fiac 2003 an exhibition bringing together a set of major works from the 1960s, entitled "Paris 1961". In 2005, he created a cycle of three monumental murals for the courtroom of the Court House in Laval. In 2010, following the 2010 Haiti earthquake of January 12, Hervé Télémaque sponsors the "Haiti Action Artists" auction, which aims to give Haitian artists the means to rework and to create durable solutions. A retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him by the Musée national d'art moderne at the Centre Pompidou from February 25, 2015 to May 18, 2015, with 74 paintings, drawings, collages, objects and assemblages[3] , replicated at the Musée Cantini, then in 2016 at the Fondation Clément in Martinique, with a selection of about 50 paintings directly related to the West Indies and Africa The MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) acquired a painting from the New York years No Title (The Ugly American) 1962/64 thanks to the patronage of Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis in honour of Jerry Speyer, three personalities close to the New York Museum. A painting shown at the Guttklein Fine Art Gallery in Paris in 2018. In this exhibition entitled "Jalons", Hervé Télémaque shows for the first time Témoins (1998) a mural painting symbolizing a return to his Haitian roots. In 2019, he creates the surprise at the Rabouan Moussion gallery in Paris where, in the exhibition "L'inachevée conception", he presents an imposing canvas of ten meters long. Produced in the calm of his workshop in Verneuil-sur-Avre in Normandy, the painting Al l'en Guinée (2016–18) evokes the fantasized journey of a long-distance walker. "It's a hike on life" laughs the painter known for his metaphorical images, steep wefts and diversionary beacons. In "randonnée"; infuses the idea of a long-distance trip. Is it death or a joyful return to the land of the ancestors ? Source:wikipedia.org Joan Prats (1891-1970) Joan Prats was born in 1891 to a family who sold hats. He was trained as an artist in the Llotja School, where he first met Joan Miró, who was also training there.Prats organised exhibitions for leading Iberian artists including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and his good friend Miró. He was also associated with Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Josep Vicenç Foix and Joan Brossa.Prats together with rationalist architect Josep Lluis Sert and avant-garde photographer Joaquim Gomis, founded the ADLAN (Amics de l'Art Nou, i.e. Friends of New Art) association, which brought together a variety of different people interested in new trends in the arts. The association lasted from 1932 to 1936 and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.Miró formed his foundation with Prats, which eventually led to the museum / exhibit hall in Barcelona known as Fundació Joan Miró. Source:wikipedia.org

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