Silkscreen print on textile (silkscreen on artificial silk) by Texoprint. Signed in the print bottom left. Edition: approx. 200 (unnumbered) in the 1980s and 1990s. Texoprint (Gamma Holding NV) published several works by well-known artists using this printing technique during that period.
Image size: 64 x 64 cm. Framed with a mat behind glass. Total size: 91 x 95 cm.
Albert Bitran (1929-2018) was born into a Jewish Sephardic family in Istanbul, Turkey. After studying at the French Collège Saint Michel, with degrees in both French and Turkish, he was admitted to the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. Knowing that he wanted to be a painter and not an architect, he moved into a studio in the American pavilion of the Cité Universitaire, where he joined a circle of artists who had come to Paris for inspiration: Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman from the US, many South Americans, Ricardo Porro from Cuba, Jesús Rafael Soto from Venezuela, Serge Poliakoff from Russia, Pablo Palazuelo from Spain and two young artists: Georges Koskas from Tunisia and Horia Damian from Romania, who had a very decisive influence on his debut as a painter.
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ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialWoodNumber of items1OrientationLandscapeArt sizeMediumHeight91 cmWidth95 cm