Robert COMBAS - Rugby World Cup 2007 - Hand-signed screen print

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).
Robert Combas : Born in 1957 Robert Combas is a french artist. He was very active during the 1980's and developed a « new figurative painting », he created what the artist Ben called « Figuration Libre » (free figuration) composed by artists like Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond and Hervé Di Rosa. In his works Combas broach the themes of violence, society, pain, and sexuality. His inspirations came from popular culture (rock music, images, children books...). Combas' work is exhibited worldwide, especially in Paris (Grand Palais, Maison européenne de la photographie), Cannes, Venice, Seoul, Arles, Bratislava, Milan or Lyon.

Ludwig Museum (Budapest) (Hungary)
CAPC Bordeaux Modern Art Museum (France)
Collection Lambert Avignon (France)
FRAC Alsace (France)
The Agnès B. Collection (France)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Rochechouart Departmental Museum of Contemporary Art (France)
Nice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) (France)
Regional Center for Contemporary Art Languedoc Roussillon (France)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
Paris Municipal Contemporary Art Fund (France)
Regional Museum of Contemporary Art Languedoc Roussillon (France)
Limousin Art Library + FACLIM (France)
Serithèque (France)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute (France)
ACAPA (Angoulême Art Library) (France)
Coffim Corporate Foundation (France)
Art library of Caen (France)
Fundació Stämpfli (Spain)
National Center for Visual Arts (France)
Gemeentemuseum Helmond (Netherlands)
Paul Valéry Museum (France)
Stella Art Foundation (Russia)
Michel Fedoroff Collection (Monaco)
Sainte-Croix Abbey Museum (France)
Art library, Millau (France)
FRAC Rhône-Alpes (France)