01 Nov
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Description: Oil on canvas, 65 x 54.3 cm. Signed and dated 'Herold 66' (bottom left); titled 'Le bouclier' (on the chassis)Catalogue note: Jacques Hérold was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1925 and 1929. During this time, he discovered the avant-garde artists' publication 75HP, which inspired him to travel to Paris in 1930. Upon his arrival in Paris, he worked for Constantin Brancusi and met Victor Braun, Yves Tanguy and André Breton and, in 1934, he officially joined Breton's Surrealist group. Hérold exhibited at the Salon d’Automne beginning in 1936, and, in the late 1940s, his work was included in all the major Surrealism exhibitions. His first solo exhibition was mounted in 1947. In the 1950s, Hérold studied under Stanley William Hayter at his experimental workshop Atelier 17 alongside Europe’s leading experimental printmakers. Hérold was also an illustrator and he designed covers and illustrations for more than eighty books by renowned authors. The artist remained active until his death in Paris in 1987. In 2010, the Musée Cantini in Marseilles mounted an exhibition, Jacques Hérold et le Surréalism.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 16169, Lot 153, Invoice no. DB18002547. Collection Guido Peruz, Milan. | Collection Vera and Arturo Schwarz, Milan (acquired from it in 1990). | Donation of it to Israel Museum, Jerusalem, in 1998
Catalogue no.: 2018P0095-JH
