#26 • Folon: "La route" 97/100 Signed Framed Original Etching and Aquatint, Limited Edition

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High bid $250.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

A 1930's car, headlights shining, is driven by a mustachioed driver in a fedora in this 1980 original etching with aquatint by Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005). A meandering road fills the background, and a salmon-colored sky is added to the grey-toned piece at the top. Titled "La route", it is a part of "Theater Suite". The impression for the etching is clearly seen. Signed in pencil by the artist, and numbered 99/100. Framed in a faux-distressed gun metal-toned wood frame - double matted in cream and grey. Has a wire in back to hang. Very good condition - the art lies clean and flat. A few tiny nicks to the frame. Please see our photos for additional details. Dimensions: Frame size - 24.5" w x 21.75" tall, Art opening - 16" w x 12.75" tall. About the artist: Jean-Michel Folon was born in Uccle, near Brussels, Belgium in 1934. He studied architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc, in Brussels, but in 1955 abandoned his studies and set off to Paris to devote himself to drawing. When he could not stir up any interest in France, he sent his drawings to magazines in the United States, where Horizon, Esquire, and The New Yorker published them. Later, Fortune and Atlantic Monthly would also publish his drawings, and his work would grace the cover of Time magazine four times. A versatile artist, Folon designed posters for humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF, Greenpeace and Amnesty International; illustrated works by Lewis Carroll, Ray Bradbury and Franz Kafka; designed costumes and sets for major opera and theater productions; and in his later years, focused on sculpture. In 2000, he established the Fondation Folon on the estate of the Castle of La Hulpe, near where he grew up. More than 300 of his works are on permanent display there. Folon died in Monaco in 2005 at the age of 71.