ANTONI CLAVE Original Lithograph, Scarce, Hand Signed, Numbered, Framed, COA

ANTONI CLAVE
Original Limited Edition lithograph


Artist: Antoni Clave (Antoni Clavé Sanmartìn)
Medium: Original Lithograph on Paper
Edition: Limited Edition, 41/100
Signed: Hand Signed in Pencil Lower Right, Numbered Lower Left
Condition: Very Good
This lithograph is very scarce and sought after
Accompanied by a Gallery Certificate of Authenticity

New Museum Quality Framing ($900 Value)
- Archival Acid free Materials
- Bainbridge Mat Board - Precious Metals - Urban Black (100% Virgin Alpha-Cellulose, Acid-Free and Lignin-Free, Buffered to an Alkaline pH, Fade and Bleed Resistant, Meets All Conservation Quality Standards Set by the Fine Art Trade Guild)
- Premium Wood Moulding
- TRU-VUE Conservation Clear Acrylic:
Blocks 99% of UV rays
Shatter resistance safeguards against injury and damage to artwork

Framed size : 39" X 32"
Artwork: 29" X 21"


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Collections:
Museo de Bellas artes de Bilbao
Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
British Museum, London
Tate Gallery
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid, Spain
Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia
the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
and many more

Antoni Clavé
(1913-2005)

His work is displayed in many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art Paris, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, National Museum of Serbia, Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid in Spain, Museo Patio Herresriano, Tate Gallery London, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and The British Museum London.

Antoni Clavé Sanmartín (1913-2005). The contemporary Spanish painter and sculptor Antoni Clavé was born in 1913 in Barcelona. From 1926-1932, he attended evening classes at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, and worked as a house painter until 1932. He began his autodidactic artistic career with copying works by old masters, for instance Velázquez and Goya. Afterwards, Clavé began creating illustrations for children’s books and designs for promotional and movie posters (including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

In 1939, he settled in Paris, where he worked as a cartoonist and illustrator. In 1944, he met Pablo Picasso, who became a close friend. Picasso had a deep influence on Clavé’s artistic development towards abstraction. From 1946 to 1955, he completed numerous designs for ballets and theaters in Paris, Munich, London, and New York. In 1965, he started working almost exclusively as a freelance artist, putting a focus on graphic works starting in 1965 and collages as of the 1970s.

The early 1980s saw the Clavé series Hommage à Picasso, followed by a series inspired by urban living in New York, which Clavé visited in 1972 and 1989. After one-man shows in museums and galleries in Zurich, Barcelona, Paris and Tokyo, Clavé was given a comprehensive retrospective at the Centre Pompidou Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1978. The Spanish pavilion at the 1984 Venice Biennale was dedicated to Antoni Clavé.

Until today he is represented with exhibitions in galleries as well as museums in Europe, Asia and the USA on a regular basis.