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Etching by Erik Desmazières * "The Temple in the Jungle" represents a complex composition of vegetation that invaded an abandoned temple, signed lower right, numbered EA (Artist Proof) 3/10. Dated 1973.
This etching is in good condition as well as its frame. It's under glass. Signed and numbered in the bottom.
Remember: tiny scratches and wear on the frame.
After an itinerant childhood and adolescence spent between Morocco, France and Portugal, he entered the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. The year of his diploma, in 1971, he decides to undertake an artistic career. Having always drawn since childhood, he follows the evening classes of the City of Paris, studying drawing and engraving with Jean Delpech. In 1972, he chose the engraving for craft and main means of expression. Recognition of the artistic sector is fast for Érik Desmazières who received in 1978 the Grand Prix Arts of the City of Paris. His work includes, after forty years of activity, more than two hundred boards. Many personal exhibitions of his works take place in Europe, the United States and Japan. Erik Desmazières' works, which are present in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Rijksmuseum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library, combine unrivaled technical virtuosity and dreamlike vision. Virtuoso of the drawing, meticulous engraver, creator of vertiginous images, iconographer among others of Borges, Erik Desmazières is an atypical figure of the present art as much by its techniques, waterforte and aquatinte, as by the subjects and the sources that privileges . (extrait site Académie Beaux-Arts)
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