Fernand Mourlot

Fernand Mourlot ( born April 5, 1895 in Paris; † 4 December 1988) was the artistic director of the Paris Mourlot Frères printing company that was known for producing excellent lithographs. As a publisher, he published under the name of Fernand Mourlot Éditeur artist's books by writers and artists of the modern age.

Life and work

The printing house Mourlot, founded in 1852 in Paris, began with the production of exclusive wallpapers. 1914 Advanced Jules Mourlot (company name Imprimerie J. Mourlot ) production and acquired additional space in the 10th arrondissement, 18 rue Chabrol. One of his children, Fernand Mourlot, studied painting at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and worked, interrupted by participating as a soldier in the First World War, in his father's print shop.

In 1921 after the death of his father, called the printing Mourlot Frères. The eldest son, Georges, took care of the finances, Fernand was artistic director, a third son, Maurice, a painter who joined later.

Mourlot Frères got orders for the production of exhibition posters of French museums, such as 1930 for the retrospective of Eugène Delacroix in the Louvre, in 1932 for an exhibition Édouard Manet's national Musée de l' Orangerie and 1934 Honoré Daumier's work in the Bibliothèque de France.

Among the artists who came Mourlots workshop on cooperation in lithographic area included the modern artists such as Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Giovanni Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso.

For the publisher Tériade Mourlot printed from 1937 whose magazine Verve. As of November 1945, Picasso turned to this technique, after the first lithographs of 1919 to 1930 in the studio of Mourlot again; There were, for example, Tête de femme, femmes nues and Les deux Le Taureau. By 1969, nearly 400 lithographs by Picasso in collaboration with Mourlot, including the famous dove of peace.

The Aime Maeghts Derrière le miroir art magazine (1946-1982) published the original graphics were printed to a great extent by Mourlot.

The publisher Fernand Mourlot Éditeur presented from 1944 artists' books ago with texts of French writers, illustrated with lithographs by well-known artists.

In 1960, Mourlot moved to the rue Barrault. The last studio was in 1976 in the 49 rue du Montparnasse.

Opened in 1967 Mourlot a branch in New York City and worked with contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Alex Katz and Claes Oldenburg. The Paris studio closed in 1999. Mourlots grandson Eric Mourlot shows a large collection of prints in the gallery in the Mourlot 16 East 79th Street in New York. In Germany, the Kunsthalle Bremen has 80 specimens donated by the art historian and art collector Hans - Herman Rief.

Published in 1979, Fernand Mourlot his autobiography Graves dans ma mémoire, in which he described his life as a printer and the meetings with the artists. Place the Place Fernand Mourlot in the Montparnasse district in Paris, recalls in the 14th arrondissement to the printer and publisher.

Fernand Mourlot Éditeur (selection)

  • Matière et Mémoire ou les à l' école lithographes. Text by Francis Ponge, lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944
  • Quelques mots pour Monsieur rassemblés Dubuffet. Text by Paul Éluard, lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944
  • Vache bleue dans une ville. Text by André Frénaud, lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944
  • Braque le patron. Text by Jean Paulhan, lithographs by Georges Braque, 1945
  • Echos. Lyrics by Jacques Prevert, André Verdet, Nazim Hikmet, lithographs by Henri Matisse, 1952
  • Dans l' atelier de Picasso. Text by Jaime Sabartés, lithographs by Picasso, 1957
  • Une fête en Cimmérie. Text by Georges Duthuit, lithographs de Henri Matisse, 1964
  • Bouquet de rêves pour Neila. Text by Yvan Goll, lithographs by Joan Miro, 1967
  • Poésies Antillaises. Poems by John -Antoine Nau, lithographs by Henri Matisse, 1972
  • Portfolio de l' Imprimerie du centenaire Mourlot, with lithographs by Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Matisse, Léger, Brianchon, Clairin, Marini, Minaux, Dufy, Masson, Braque, 1952
  • Portfolio d' affiches. Seven albums with posters, published 1953-1963

Publications

  • Picasso Lithographe. Four volumes, published 1949-1964 at Éditions André Sauret, Monte Carlo Picasso Lithograph. Translated from the French by Eric Weiser. Andre Sauret, Paris 1970
  • À même la pierre, Fernand Mourlot Lithographe. Pierre Bordas & Fils éditeurs, Paris 1982
  • Cinquante années de lithography. Pierre Bordas & Fils éditeurs, Paris 1983
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