original lithograph in poster form, 58x79 cm
Lithograph prepared for the1954 French art magazine "Derriere le Miroir" by Atelier Mourlot for Maeght Editours.
The founder and publisher of the French art magazine "Derriere le Miroir," published from 1946 to 1982, was Aime Maeght, a art dealer and collector. He also founded Galerie Maeght in Paris and Barcelona. He represented the interests of artists such as Miro, Chagall and Matisse. He and his wife also created the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice, a private museum dedicated to 20th-century art that houses several thousand works of art.
The lithography publisher, a Paris-based graphic design studio known as Imprimerie Mourlot, Mourlot Freres and Atelier Mourlot, had specialized in artistic lithography since the 1920s. Its development comes at a time when the company was headed by Fernand Mourlot. It was he who established cooperation with the greatest artists of the time and gained fame and recognition especially in the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, when he published lithographs of such world art stars as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro and Henri Matisse.
