Additional information
| Artist | Miller |
|---|---|
| Region | North American |
| Country | American |
ArtistMiller, Henry
Artist Years1891-1980
Artist NationalityAmerican
TitleD’Apres Schatz
Year1973
MediumPrint > Lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 18.5 X 11.8 inches
Sheet: 22 X 19 inches
Description
Original lithograph, signed and dated in pencil and annotated with title and “70/200”, printed in black with mottled pink plate tone on heavy, felt-finish, cream wove Arches paper. Fine condition. Free shipping to US address.
(bx-129)
Accession Number729515
NotesIn addition to his enormous literary abilities, Miller produced numerous watercolor paintings and prints (etchings, lithographs and serigraphs). He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller's paintings exist. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a selection of Miller's watercolors, as did the Henry Miller Museum of Art in Ōmachi City in Nagano, Japan, before closing in 2001. Miller's daughter Valentine placed some of her father's art for sale in 2005.
Note:
Bezalel (Lilik) Schatz (1912-1978) was an Israeli artist, son of Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. He attended the Gymnasia in Jerusalem and at age 14 completed his studies at the Bezalel School of Art. Following his father’s death in 1932, Bezalel left Israel for a period of some two decades. He spent four years studying at the Grand Chaumiere Academy in Paris and then moved to the West Coast of the United States (where he met the writer Henry Miller). He moved back to Israel in 1952, initially taking up residence in the Schatz family historic home in Jerusalem, before settling in the artists’ village of Ein Hod. Despite his long absence from Israel and his conceptual conflicts with its’ artists, Schatz represented his native country at Venice’s 1954 Biennale and overall contributed significantly to Israel’s aesthetic environment and the development of the fine arts.
Bezalel Schatz had proposed an art-book collaboration idea to Henry Miller in 1945. This would become the present limited edition publication, “Into The Nightlife.” Miller and Schatz subsequently become life-long friends, and later brothers-in-law, when Miller married the sister of Schatz’s wife.
(source: Kestenbaum and Co., New York)