La Chouette by Gabriel Paris
La Chouette
Gabriel Paris
Title
La Chouette
Artist
Gabriel Paris
1924 - 2000 (biography)Year
1961
Technique
color lithograph
Image Size
14 1/2 x 21 3/4" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
epreuve d'artiste (artist's proof) aside from the published editon of 175
Annotations
pencil dated and editioned
Reference
Paper
sturdy buff wove
State
proof
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
21378
Price
SOLD
Description
French artist Gabriel Paris was from a military family but was interested in art and poetry, and studied architecture at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was admitted to the advanced classes at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris and he graduated as a Set Designer when he was 25.
He did this colorful lithograph of an owl in 1961, when he was 37, while still working as a set designer and book illustrator. The composition incorporates many of the influences from painters such as Seurat, Bonnard, and Desnoyer as well as from Surrealism and Impressionism and the School of Paris artists.
Gabriel Paris left behind an extraordinary body of work, consisting of 1800 engravings, a dozen artist’s books and almost fifty paintings.