Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque at Mourlot's Centenial in 1952
I was recently invited by a private collector of mine to produce two lithographs for his collection in no other than the world famous former Mourlot studios ( now IDEM)in Montparnasse in Paris. And it could be that I am the first artist from South East Asia enjoying this privilege. Paul McCarthy and David Lynch it seems have made their prints there recently. Asian artists that have made their lithos there are Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guanyi, Yuen Minjun and Raza from India.
"For more than half a century Fernand Mourlot was synonymous with the resurgence of lithography, a process which would attract under his influence the greatest artistic masters of our times.Under the direction of Fernand Mourlot, artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miró,Braque, Dubuffet, Léger, Giacometti... enriched their own work as well as contemporary art in general with a new medium of expression, a new realm of experimental possibilities.With Mourlot, and thanks to him, modern lithography took on a personality and found a future." taken from here.
