Bolotowsky, Ilya - 1957 - Musée Galliera Paris (Peintres Américains Contemporains)

Bolotowsky, Ilya
born 1907 in USSR - St.Petersburg, died 1981 in New York
 

poster of the exhibition Musée Galliera Paris
title: Peintres Américains Contemporains
1957 ( january 25 - march 04 )
colour offset-lithograph
62 cm x 38 cm
print: Les Presses Artistiques Paris (see additional picture)
slight traces of handling and age, generally in good condition

order no. 22444

According to the catalogue the work "Opalescence Verticale" or "Opalescent Vertical" by Bolotowsky from 1955 was featured in the exhibition. Today this work is on view at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Curiously, the poster shows elements of another work by Bolotowsky.

   One of the early important exhibitions to bring American modern art to Europe and France. Participating artists: Joseph Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Edward Hopper, Theodoros Stamos, Mark Tobey among others.

   Henry Billings of the International Association of Plastic Arts asks in the preface to the catalogue: "Does a typical American style exist? For us there is no answer to this question, and, by the way, it is not a question that interests us deeply."

Lit.:

Peintres Américains contemporains, Einführung von Henry Billings, Ausst.-Kat. Musée Galliera Paris, 1957, with an introduction by Henry Billings

See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016, p. 30 f.