Bernard RANCILLAC (1931-2021) Allen Ginsberg,... Lot 22

Bernard RANCILLAC (1931-2021) Allen Ginsberg, 1968 Serigraphy on two altuglas plates, monogrammed on each element. Scratches and rubbing. 160 x 120 x 120 cm Note : unique piece in this color. There is a red copy in the Museum of Fine Arts in Dunkirk and a green one. EXHIBITIONS : - Les Américains, Galerie Blumenthal-Mommaton, Paris, 1968, 1 of the 3 pieces exhibited. - Retrospective Rancillac, Vitry-sur-Seine, 1969, listed in the exhibition catalog as #37, 1 of 3 exhibited. - The Americans, Alfieri Gallery, Venice, 1969, reproduced in the exhibition catalog, 1 of 3 copies on display. - Le mythe quotidien, Lens, 1969, 1 of 3 copies on display. - Rancillac, Musée d'art et d'industrie, Saint-Etienne, 1971, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under no. 37, 1 of 3 copies on display. - Chimériques polymères. Le plastique dans l'art du XXe siècle, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, 1996, reproduced in the exhibition catalog on page 157. - Rancillac aux frontières, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine, 2001, reproduced on the first and fourth covers of the exhibition catalog, 1 of 3 copies on display. - Retrospective Rancillac 1962-2002, Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun; Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dôle, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under no. 32 on page 84. - Bernard Rancillac, Musée de la Poste, Paris, 2017, reproduced in the exhibition catalog on page 72. - Bernard Rancillac, Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, 2017. BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Opus International, issue 9, 1968, 1 of 3 copies reproduced pages 88. - L'art contemporain en France, Catherine Millet, éditions Flammarion, Paris, 1987, 1 of 3 copies reproduced page 80. - Artistes et techniques, number 36, 1992, 1 of 3 copies reproduced on page 14. - Rancillac, Serge Fauchereau, éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1998, reproduced on pages 108 and 109. "At the end of the 1960s, Bernard Rancillac created a series of monumental sculptures in altuglass depicting the portraits of great American men of that era, including the American poet Allen Ginsberg."