The School of Paris (Ecole de Paris) was a rather broad category and included Modern Artists of various styles (many of whom were foreign-born) who lived and worked in Paris in the early and middle years of the 20th Century. Paris was long considered to be the world's great laboratory of Modern Art, even with the emergence of New York as a rival center. Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall were among the most illustrious of these, but on this website we have special sections for Chagall lithographs and Picasso prints. Other Modern Masters of the graphic arts are represented here, such as Jean Dubuffet, Nicholas de Stael, Serge Poliakoff, Bernard Buffet, Hans Hartung, Bram van Velde, Henri Michaux, Alfred Manessier, Marcel Vertes, Jean Cocteau, Louis Icart, Jean Fautrier, Pierre Soulages, Vieira da Silva, Charles Lapicque, Pierre Tal-Coat, Zao Wou-ki and many others.
AffordableArt101 would like to pay homage to several of the leading publishers and printers who made it all possible: Christian Zervos founded the journal Cahiers d'Art in 1926, and in addition to being a treasury of information, is the source of several rare and beautiful pochoir prints. Gualtieri di San Lazzaro founded the journal XXe Siecle (Chroniques du Jour) in 1938, which served as a wealth of scholarship and a source of lithographs, pochoirs and linocuts and continued for decades. Teriade founded Verve in 1937, which published some of the most beautiful lithographs of the era. Aime Maeght started Derriere le Miroir in 1946, and this publication continued until 1983, featuring original lithographs by many of the most important printmakers working in Paris during that time. Maeght died in 1981, and an era ended. Daniel Jacomet was master of the pochoir techinque. A pochoir (stencil print) is an old fashioned but beautiful medium producing rich, vibrant colors and bold geometric shapes, resembling a silkscreen. However, of all the Master Printers who worked with the artists and their publishers, none are so renown as Mourlot Freres (the Mourlot Brothers), and especially one brother in particular, Fernand Mourlot. Working with Teriade, Maeght, Sauret and others, he was the bridge between the concept of art and its realization on paper. It was through the labor and skill of ateliers like these that the lithograph came back into fashion, and indeed has become the pre-eminent print medium of our era, with Mourlot lithographs being especially sought after today.
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AffordableArt101 Fine Prints is proud to offer an excellent selection of School of Paris art for sale online, with works by many Masters of the Ecole de Paris and the most attractively priced original prints for sale of any online art dealers, specializing in Mourlot prints and Derriere le Miroir lithographs.
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