Gilbert Poillerat (1902-1988) - Eleven Etchings and Mezzotints, 1975-1981

Gilbert Poillerat (1902-1988) | French Eleven Etchings and Mezzotints, 1975-1981 Etching on Paper Signed: Each sheet signed ‘G. Poillerat’ in pencil, most dated and inscribed ‘E.A.’ or ‘Épreuve d’artiste’ with the edition number; one sheet dedicated ‘à Jacques & Germaine Bonjean, petit témoignage d’une affectueuse amitié, Gilbert’. Dimensions: Framed, glazed: 26 × 26.5 cm (10.2 × 10.4 in) and 26.5 × 25 cm (10.4 × 9.8 in) (the two frames with paired plates); 33.5 × 26.5 cm (13.2 × 10.4 in), 33.5 × 26.5 cm (13.2 × 10.4 in) and 33.5 × 26 cm (13.2 × 10.2 in) (the three single plates); 38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in) (the frame with three plates) Artwork: Eleven prints in six frames, from 26.5 × 25 cm (10.4 × 9.8 in) to 38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in) with frames Provenance: Jacques and Germaine Bonjean, Paris (one sheet dedicated to them by the artist). Private Collection, Alicante, Spain. Condition: Etchings and mezzotints on wove paper, mounted and framed under glass in six modern black frames; the sheets lightly toned, with some foxing and tape stains visible to the mounts and backboards; not examined out of the frames. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report. Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Full shipping and export information is available on request. Conditions of Sale: All lots are sold as is, in the condition described. The condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. Attributions are governed by our Terms and Conditions. All enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. By placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. -- Eleven small prints by the great French ironworker in six black frames, the private side of a public artist. Two are mezzotints of 1975 in the velvet blacks of the technique, ‘Le Verre de Venise’, a Venetian goblet with a rose and a quince, and ‘Les Pinceaux japonais’, a pot of Japanese brushes beside a mask; the rest are etchings made as New Year’s cards and gifts for friends: a cat asleep on an hourglass for 1977, the hourglass again inside the zodiac, an acrobat juggling a twenty-sided die for 1979, a harlequin on a tightrope for 1976, four cats curled into the figures of 1981, a hand holding a key with the monogram GP, a sprig of lilies in a bottle, and a pair of Japanese masks. The sheets are artist’s proofs or numbered impressions from editions of 10 to 100, signed and dated in pencil, and the zodiac sheet is dedicated by hand to the Paris dealers Jacques and Germaine Bonjean. Gilbert Poillerat (1902–1988), trained as an engraver at the École Boulle before he became the master of wrought iron of the Art Deco and neoclassical decades, returned to the burin and the copper plate in his seventies; these cards, witty, precise and affectionate, show the hand that drew the scrolls of his gates and consoles at its most intimate.

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