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Jean Cocteau
French, 1889-1963

Jean Cocteau French, 1889-1963

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Jean Cocteau French, 1889-1963

Visage, 1947
Screenprint on silk
Artist's signature lower right
Ascher's signature lower left
During 1946-1947 the celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his so-called Artist Squares Collection with the intention of them being used as either artworks to hang...
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During 1946-1947 the celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his so-called Artist Squares Collection with the intention of them being used as either artworks to hang on the wall or scarves. Prominent artists of the time contributed, including Calder, Derain, Dominguez, Laurencin, Matisse, Moore, Nicholson.

The screenprint on silk has been professionally hand rolled and stitched with silk onto on conservation fabric of the same weight as the Square and then laid on a stretcher and framed.
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Exhibitions

1947, Lefevre Gallery, London

1950, Galerie Doucet, Paris

1975, The Ascher Squares, Neiman Marcus, Dallas

1983, Redfern Gallery

1987, Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1990, Ascher Artists Scarves, Comme de Garçons, Tokyo

2008, Styling the Modern: Fine Art Meets Fashion, Fine Art Centre, Colorado Springs.

Literature

MENDES, Valerie and Frances HINCHCLIFFE. Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1987, ill. p. 81 (different colour illustrated).

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