François MORELLET, 3 simples trames, 1959 - Handsigned 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).
François Morellet : (1926-2016) is a contemporary French painter, sculptor and light artist. His early work prefigured Minimal art and Conceptual art, and he has played an important role in the development of geometrical abstract art. After a short period of figurative/representational work, Morellet turned to abstraction in 1950 and he adopted a pictorial language of simple geometric forms: lines, squares and triangles assembled into two-dimensional compositions. In 1961, he was one of the founders of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), with fellow artists Francisco Sobrino, Horatio Garcia-Rossi, Hugo DeMarco, Julio Le Parc, Jean-Pierre Yvaral (the son of Victor Vasarely) and Joël Stein, François Molnar and Vera Molnar (the last two left the group shortly after). Morellet began at this time to work with neon tube lighting. Since the 1960s, Morellet has worked in various materials (fabric, tape, neon, walls...) and has investigated the use of the exhibition space in terms similar to artists of installation art and environmental art. He has gained an international reputation, especially in Germany and France, and his work has been commissioned for public and private collections in Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the U.S.A. François Morellet is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris.

FRAC Bourgogne (France)
Neuchâtel Art and History Museum (Switzerland)
Cholet Art and History Museum (France)
Departmental Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art - Epinal (France)
MacVal (France)
National Center for Plastic Arts (France)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Neues Museum Nürnberg (Germany)
Societe Generale Collection (France)
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Shelter Foundation (Switzerland)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
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Mutuelles de Loire Atlantique (France)
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Denys Puech Museum (France)
Nantes Fine Arts Museum (France)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
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Venet Foundation (France)
Regional Center of Contemporary Art Languedoc Roussillon (France)
The Store - National Center of Contemporary Art of Grenoble (France)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Donjon de Vez (Caroline and Francis Briest) (France)
Antoine de Galbert Collection (France)
MAC Lyon (Museum of Contemporary Art) (France)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (The USA)
MAMCO (Switzerland)
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Sammlung Rolf & Erika Hoffmann (Germany)
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Paris Municipal Contemporary Art Fund (France)
Arts Council of England (United Kingdom)
Artothèque, Pessac (France)
Limousin art library + FACLIM (France)
Museum Morsbroich (Germany)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Das Museum Wiesbaden (Germany)
Grenoble Museum (France)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Castle Museum of the Dukes of Württemberg (France)
Daimler Art Collection (Germany)
Centro Andaluz by Arte Contemporáneo (Spain)
MUSMA Museo della Scultura Contemporanea Matera (Italy)
The silo Jean-Philippe and Françoise Billarant collection (France)
Borusan Contemporary Art Collection (Turkey)
Departmental Contemporary Art Fund of Seine-Saint-Denis (France)
Artothèque de Caen (France)
Belgacom art collection (Belgium)
Collection of visual arts city of Bienne (Switzerland)
Nancy Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Marcel Brient Collection (France)
Ursuline Museum (France)
Artothèque, Angers (France)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Saint Priest Artothèque (France)
Museum of Contemporary Art Marseille (France)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst (Germany)
The Consortium (France)
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SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen (The Schaufler Foundation) (Germany)
Villa Datris (France)
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Germany)
Sammlung Schroth (Germany)
Artothèque, Poitiers (France)
University of Warwick Art Collection (United Kingdom)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Michel Fedoroff Collection (Monaco)
Vass Collection (Hungary)
Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Germany)
FRAC Rhône-Alpes (France)
Rennes Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Kunsthalle Würth (Germany)
Artothèque, Nantes (France)
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-e-Fonds (Switzerland)