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22 - VILLON, François (KROL, Abram).
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Estimate €250 - €280
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VILLON, François (KROL, Abram). Extracts from poems. [24486] Published by the artist, 1995. In oblong folio format, as loose sheets in a drawing folder and cardboard slipcase bearing a mounted vignette; 1 sheet of text, a suite of 12 copperplates; enclosed: an engraving on chine paper mounted on pearlescent Japanese vellum. A personalised copy signed by the artist. Limited edition of only 24 copies. Unbound sheets in a drawing folder, one sheet of text, a suite of 12 copperplate engravings; enclosed: an engraving on rice paper mounted on Japanese vellum, signed by the artist. Limited edition: only 24 copies. This numbered copy is signed by A. Krol. “Born in 1919 in Pabianice, near Łódź, in Poland, Krol (1919–2001) arrived in France in 1938 to study at the Institut Technique de Normandie. In 1940, Krol left Normandy to enlist in the Foreign Legion. Demobilised after the armistice, he found himself in Avignon in the Free Zone, penniless, far from his family, and looking for work to make ends meet. He became a labourer in a garage. He then sought employment with a cabinetmaker, whose workshop struck him as a haven of peace, order and cleanliness. The cabinetmaker advised him to attend the Sunday classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. Particularly vulnerable because of his Jewish heritage, Krol narrowly escaped a round-up and managed to reach Paris under a false identity. He would later learn that his parents, who had remained in Poland, had been exterminated by the Nazis. In 1947, Krol met the engraver Joseph Hecht (1891–1951), who taught him the art of engraving. By the late 1950s, he had begun to create large-scale engravings combining the techniques of engraving and colour aquatint. “These engravings mark a decisive departure from the austerity of classical engraving and, in their rendering and form, resemble a new form of popular imagery.” (Pierre-Yves Corbel).
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