Herv Tlmaque, Composition, Ediciones Polgrafa, Redfern Gallery, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin paper. Paper size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ediciones Polgrafa, Redfern Gallery, 1979. Published by Redfern Gallery, London; printed by Ediciones Polgrafa, Barcelona, October 23, 1979. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This book has been published for the exhibition of artists who have worked for Ediciones Polgrafa, Barcelona, at the Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street - London W. 1 from December 4th, 1979, to January 31st, 1980. This album was finished in Barcelona on 23rd October 1979 on the presses of La Polgrafa, S.A. The English edition for the Redfern Gallery has been limited to M examples. There is also a de luxe edition with a portfolio containing a selection of the lithographs with full margins, 3742 x 27 cm., specially made for this book, signed and limited to C examples.

HERV TLMAQUE (1937-2022) was a French painter of Haitian origin, associated with the surrealism and the narrative figuration movements. Tlmaque was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following a health problem, he had to give up his hopes of competing in sports. In 1957, when Franois Duvalier came to power, he left Haiti for New York City and joined the Art Student's League until 1960, when his teacher, the painter Julian Levi, encouraged his artistic vocation. During his stay in the United States, where he frequented museums, he was simultaneously intellectually nourished by abstract expressionism, then surrealism, as used and reinterpreted by American artists (De Kooning, Lam, etc.), and in particular by the influence of Arshile Gorky. As early as 1959, his painting entitled Sirne (Muse Sainte-Croix) marked his uniqueness. Tlmaque wanted to be reality-based and escape abstraction: even the title refers to his daily life, evoking the boats sirens he heard from his room in Brooklyn Heights. With L'Annonce faite Marie (Muse des beaux-arts de Dole, FNAC), which recalls his marriage the same year with Mal Pili, the theme of sexuality, especially present at the beginning of his work, is announced (Histoire sexuelle, 1960 ; Ciel de lit n3, 1962, Muse d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice; Femme merveille, 1963, Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne). He was disappointed by the segregationist atmosphere in the United States (Toussaint Louverture in New York, 1960, Dole Museum). In 1961, he came to France and settled in Paris. He frequented the surrealists there, without formally joining the group. But it was in the precepts of population art (comic strip, use of the episcope, then in 1966 use of acrylic) that he truly found his very particular way, while defending European creation, more critical of society.
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