£225.00
Francis Bott lithograph printed on handmade paper with the Marais watermark. Printed in blue, green, black, red and brown. Signed and dated ‘51. Scarce as Henze states only 12 copies were printed. The sheet has very light handling folds, else very good.
Image size 38 x 48 cm (15.5 x 19.5 inches
Page Size 50 x 65 cm (20 x 25.5 inches)
Reference: Henze 168: Composition. Farblithographie 1951 Signiert und datiert. 1 von wohl nur 12 exemplaren’
Provenance: Purchased at the ‘Works from the Studio of Francis Bott (1904-1998)’ Sale, Christie’s, London, 16th November 2006.
In the 1930’s-40’s Bott exhibited at the Galerie Maeght Surrealist show organised by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp. However, after 1948 Bott’s work transformed into abstraction and he was showing alongside Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and Ben Nicholson. A film made in 1957 about him, Soulages and Vieira da Silva, titled ‘Three Artists From Montparnasse’ they were the centre of the École de Paris movement at the time.The lithograph was made in this period.
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