CÉSAR BALDACCINI (Marseilles, 1950 - Paris, 1998). Untitled,... Lot 30

CÉSAR BALDACCINI (Marseilles, 1950 - Paris, 1998). Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial". Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 197/250. Signed and justified by hand. Size: 90 x 63 cm. The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the artists chosen are defined by different pictorial movements and trends. Baldaccini trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles between 1935 and 1939, later completing his training in Paris, where he studied from 1943-1948. He initially devoted himself to metal sculpture, welding scraps and scraps and creating large sculptures of insects, animals and nudes. He held his first solo exhibition in Paris at the Galerie Lucien Durand in 1954. His work is part of the New Realism movement and, although he mainly worked in metal, he also worked in graphic art and painting.