Maurice ESTÈVE - Cutout VII, signed original silkscreen

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Maurice Estève : (1904-2001) was a french painter, who was born in 1904 in Culan (Cher), and who died in the same city in 2001. Estève is one of the main painters of the Nouvelle école de Paris. An excellent colorist, his style is characterized by intermingling shapes, which natural and organic qualities witness a great deal of poetry. At the 42nd edition of FIAC, in 2015, the Applicat-Prazan Gallery exhibited 24 of his paintings.