Raoul Ubac Color Lithograph Cover for "Derrière le Miroir," 1955

Item Details

Raoul Ubac (Belgian-French, 1910 – 1985)
Untitled (cover), 1955
Color lithograph on paper
Unsigned
Pulled from Derrière le Miroir, no. 74 – 76
Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris
Artist name inscribed in plate to the lower center

Raoul Ubac was a Belgian painter, sculpture, printmaker, and photographer who worked primarily in France. From around 1934 until 1942, he focused on photography, creating Surrealist photographs that he contributed to the art journal Minotaure, founded by Andre Breton. He is known for pioneering the experimental photography technique “heatage”, for which he heated the photographic plate, allowing the image to flow and the emulsion to melt. After the outbreak of World War II, Ubac’s work became more figurative and less abstract. He returned to painting, but also turned to printmaking, creating woodcuts, engravings, and etchings. In 1961, Ubac collaborated on a stained glass commission for a church in Varengeville, France with renowned Cubist Georges Braque. Other projects of his include mosaics and tapestries that he created for the Maeght Foundation in 1967, and a 1969 tapestry design series for the Nouveau Palais de Justice in Lille, France. Ubac’s work has been collected and exhibited by numerous reputable institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Condition

- vertical creasing down the center of print where the paper has been previously folded; faint toning and flecks of debris to print and paper; negligible scratching to frame.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; image measures 21.5" W x 14.5" H.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

Item #

ITMG868255