About The Artist:
Alfred Manessier
Alfred Manessier was a non-figurative French painter and part of the new Paris School and the Salon de Mai. In 1929 he moved to Paris, where he registered to study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, although he did not complete the course. He made copies of Old Master paintings at the Louvre and frequented the Academies Libres. At the Academie Ranson in 1935 he met Roger Bissiere, who was teaching there, and became friendly with a small...
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About The Medium:
Lithograph
A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.