1950s Abstract Color Aquatint Etching by Mario Prassinos For Sale

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1950s Abstract Color Aquatint Etching by Mario Prassinos

Name: 1950s Abstract Color Aquatint Etching by Mario Prassinos
Price: 325 USD
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Irving Street Trading Co.

Alameda, CA

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Striking three colored aquatint etching by Mario Prassinos (French 1916-1985). This limited edition abstract piece is titled “Paysage A Contre … more Striking three colored aquatint etching by Mario Prassinos (French 1916-1985). This limited edition abstract piece is titled “Paysage A Contre Jour” (Landscape against the light) is numbered 46/60. Pencil signed by the artist on front corner.

Prassinos was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in 1916, the son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos. In 1922, at the age of six, he immigrated to France with his family, who had escaped the brutal persecution of Greeks and other ethnic minorities by the Ottoman government. Prassinos became a naturalized French citizen in 1949.[1]

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris beginning in 1932 and briefly trained in the studio of the French painter Clement Serveau (1886–1972).

Through his father's literary interests Prassinos became acquainted with Surrealism, meeting Paul Eluard, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray. Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and others in 1934, and decided to become an artist. From 1932 to 1936 he worked in a Surrealist style, introducing procedures of automatism and formal ambiguities that he retained in his later work.

His first exhibition took place in 1938 at the Galerie Billiet-Pierre Vorms in Paris. That same year he married Yolande Borelly (1915-2015). His daughter Catherine Prassinos was born in 1946.

Prassinos volunteered for military service in 1940, was seriously wounded and later received the Croix de Guerre (Cross of War). He also worked with the French Resistance during World War II, helping Allied soldiers escape Nazi-occupied France.

During the period 1942 to 1950 he met Raymond Queneau and Albert Camus and produced work for Editions Gallimard.

Prassinos' work is found in major art museums in Europe and North America, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, and others.

Prassinos died at his home in Eygalières, France on 23 October 1985. After his death, a donation of 800 of the artist's works was made to the French state. The "Donation Mario Prassinos" collection is housed in the Chapel of Notre-Dame de Pitié (also called Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) in Saint Remy de Provence, France. less

Dimensions: 30ʺW × 1ʺD × 22ʺH

Styles: French

Frame Type: Unframed

Art Subjects: Abstract

Period: 1950s

Item Type: Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned

Materials: Aquatint; Etching

Condition: Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections

Color: Orange

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Condition Notes: Nice vintage condition with age appropriate wear. Some blemishes to boarders and reverse (pictured) Nice vintage condition with age appropriate wear. Some blemishes to boarders and reverse (pictured) less

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