Jacques Herold, Untitled, Original Lithograph, 1974 for sale at Pamono

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Untitled is an original artwork realized by Jacques Hrold in 1974. Original colored lithograph. Good conditions. Printed by Mourlot , France. This lithograph was realized by the artist in 1974 for ditions XXe Sicle – XLIII – 74 . The artwork represents an abstract composition on the tones of pink and green. Jacques Hrold (born Herold Blumer; 1910 1987) was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor, who studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1925 and 1929. Not wanting to become an academic painter, Hrold abandoned his formal education and became an architectural draftsman. Upon his arrival in Paris, he changed his name to Jacques Hrold. He worked for Constantin Brancusi and met Victor Braun, Yves Tanguy and Andr Breton and, in 1934, he officially joined Breton’s Surrealist group. Hrold was also an illustrator and he designed covers and illustrations for more than eighty books by renowned authors. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Muses royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; the Musuem of Modern Art, Liege; the Muse Cantini, Marseilles; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; National Museum of Modern Art, Centre George Pompidou; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and t he Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others. Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (Giuseppe Papa, 1904-1974), editor, collector, and critic, gave life to a major magazine of contemporary art: he founded and directed the magazine XXe Sicle , published in Paris since 1938, dedicating each issue to a different theme of contemporary art and illustrating it with original graphics by masters such as Arp, Henri Laurens, Mir, Klee, Moore, Marino Marini, Magnelli, Picasso etc.