Pol Mara - "Een plastisch-lyrische aubade aan het wezen van de vrouw" | Litho - ingelijst - Sold
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- Description
- Pol Mara (1920-1998)
| Type of artwork | Prints (signed) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Technique | Lithograph |
| Support | Handmade Paper |
| Subject | Eroticism |
| Framed | Framed |
| Dimensions | 47 x 31 cm (h x w) |
| Incl. frame | 66.5 x 50.5 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
| Edition | 324 van 500 |
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Beautifully framed color lithograph by the acclaimed Belgian artist Pol Mara (1920-1998). His style is difficult to pigeonhole. Like many of his other works, this lithograph belongs to pop art.
It bears the title: " A plastic-lyrical aubade to the essence of women ".
Year: 1992 (not mentioned on the sheet).
Edition number: 324 of 500
Signed by hand (pencil) lower right.
the blade is in very good condition.
Very beautifully framed in a matching black wooden frame with some relief in the paint. The purple inner edge matches the lithograph perfectly! The frame is in good condition and has only a few signs of use
Photos are part of the description.
Pol Mara consciously uses elements that occur in the mass media in his paintings. After all, these are becoming increasingly important in our society. His female figures are related to the images we are confronted with on a daily basis through television, film and illustrated magazines. But unlike the mass media, where these images are presented without any poetry, Mara always strives for a pure poetic expression.
About the artist:
'An idealized world, in which only beautiful people occur, who also lead a comfortable, luxurious, carefree existence', that is what the Antwerp artist Pol Mara (pseudonym for Leopold Leysen) presents to his audience.
Pol Mara started his education in 1935 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. From 1941 to 1948 he continued his education at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts. He later became a graphic designer at Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Early in his career he worked as a surrealist painter before moving on to lyrical abstraction in the 1950s. In 1958 he founded the Antwerp avant-garde group G-58 Hessenhuis with contemporaries such as Paul Van Hoeydonck, Mark Verstockt, Filip Tas and Dan Vanseveren. He then drew and painted figures with round heads in a blotchy world in which eventually the spots take over.
In the 1960s, Pol Mara introduced photorealistic elements into his work, aligning himself with the emerging mass communication by interweaving elements from the worlds of television, film and illustrated magazines in his works. In doing so, he ventured in the footsteps of Robert Rauschenberg in the field of pop art. Pol Mara painted a dream world in which beautiful young women appear, often in light undergarments. His figures therefore show affinity with the world of fashion magazines and advertising. He painted the portrait of Chanel model Patricia van Ryckeghem. With this pure, aesthetic world, Pol Mara wanted to protest against all the injustice and the ugly in our society.
In 1974 he painted murals in the "Montgomery" metro station in Brussels.
Pol Mara had a studio in his birthplace Borgerhout for a long time. Since 1972, partly for health reasons, he resided in Gordes in Provence, France. There is still the Musée Pol Mara in the castle of Gordes, where 200 works by Pol Mara are on permanent display.
Pol Mara was very fond of traveling and traveled all over the world, often in function of exhibitions or prizes. He visited and exhibited in almost all continents.
The quality of his work was widely acclaimed and he received numerous awards:
1955: Prize "Young Belgian Painting"
1967: Laureate "Price of Criticism" by Belgian Association of Art Critics.
1969: "Prize of Modern Art" on the occasion of Print Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
1974: International Prize Diano Martina, Italy
1979: Prize in Barcelona, Spain on the occasion of the Biennale "Sport in Art"
1984: "Award for the Artistic Career" of the Flemish Community
Main exhibitions:
1965: New York, USA
1979 and 1992: Kruishoutem, Belgium, in the Veranneman Foundation
1982: San Diego, USA
1987: Valparaiso Chile
1993: Seoul, South Korea
1990: Retrospective exhibition in, among others, the Town Hall of Borgerhout, Belgium
1996: opening of the Musée Pol Mara in the Castle of Gordes, France
In 1968, 1975, 1992 and 1995, Belgian stamps are issued with reproductions of his works.
source: Wikipedia
It bears the title: " A plastic-lyrical aubade to the essence of women ".
Year: 1992 (not mentioned on the sheet).
Edition number: 324 of 500
Signed by hand (pencil) lower right.
the blade is in very good condition.
Very beautifully framed in a matching black wooden frame with some relief in the paint. The purple inner edge matches the lithograph perfectly! The frame is in good condition and has only a few signs of use
Photos are part of the description.
Pol Mara consciously uses elements that occur in the mass media in his paintings. After all, these are becoming increasingly important in our society. His female figures are related to the images we are confronted with on a daily basis through television, film and illustrated magazines. But unlike the mass media, where these images are presented without any poetry, Mara always strives for a pure poetic expression.
About the artist:
'An idealized world, in which only beautiful people occur, who also lead a comfortable, luxurious, carefree existence', that is what the Antwerp artist Pol Mara (pseudonym for Leopold Leysen) presents to his audience.
Pol Mara started his education in 1935 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. From 1941 to 1948 he continued his education at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts. He later became a graphic designer at Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Early in his career he worked as a surrealist painter before moving on to lyrical abstraction in the 1950s. In 1958 he founded the Antwerp avant-garde group G-58 Hessenhuis with contemporaries such as Paul Van Hoeydonck, Mark Verstockt, Filip Tas and Dan Vanseveren. He then drew and painted figures with round heads in a blotchy world in which eventually the spots take over.
In the 1960s, Pol Mara introduced photorealistic elements into his work, aligning himself with the emerging mass communication by interweaving elements from the worlds of television, film and illustrated magazines in his works. In doing so, he ventured in the footsteps of Robert Rauschenberg in the field of pop art. Pol Mara painted a dream world in which beautiful young women appear, often in light undergarments. His figures therefore show affinity with the world of fashion magazines and advertising. He painted the portrait of Chanel model Patricia van Ryckeghem. With this pure, aesthetic world, Pol Mara wanted to protest against all the injustice and the ugly in our society.
In 1974 he painted murals in the "Montgomery" metro station in Brussels.
Pol Mara had a studio in his birthplace Borgerhout for a long time. Since 1972, partly for health reasons, he resided in Gordes in Provence, France. There is still the Musée Pol Mara in the castle of Gordes, where 200 works by Pol Mara are on permanent display.
Pol Mara was very fond of traveling and traveled all over the world, often in function of exhibitions or prizes. He visited and exhibited in almost all continents.
The quality of his work was widely acclaimed and he received numerous awards:
1955: Prize "Young Belgian Painting"
1967: Laureate "Price of Criticism" by Belgian Association of Art Critics.
1969: "Prize of Modern Art" on the occasion of Print Biennale in Tokyo, Japan
1974: International Prize Diano Martina, Italy
1979: Prize in Barcelona, Spain on the occasion of the Biennale "Sport in Art"
1984: "Award for the Artistic Career" of the Flemish Community
Main exhibitions:
1965: New York, USA
1979 and 1992: Kruishoutem, Belgium, in the Veranneman Foundation
1982: San Diego, USA
1987: Valparaiso Chile
1993: Seoul, South Korea
1990: Retrospective exhibition in, among others, the Town Hall of Borgerhout, Belgium
1996: opening of the Musée Pol Mara in the Castle of Gordes, France
In 1968, 1975, 1992 and 1995, Belgian stamps are issued with reproductions of his works.
source: Wikipedia
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| The leaf is in beautiful condition! In matching (colours!) frame | |||||||||
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