Edgard PILLET Original color pochoir on wove paper,
Issued from “Témoignages pour l'Art Abstrait” (Witnesses for Abstract Art).
Limited edition of 1500 ex

Printed by Ateliers Renson Fils, Paris.
Edited by Edition Art d’Aujourd’hui. 1952

Total dimensions: 24 x 20 cm.

This pochoir is in very good condition. Please look at the pictures carefully.
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Edgard PILLET (1912-1996) was one of the most progressive artists of post-war Paris, internationally acclaimed for pioneering a new style of geometric abstraction. He is also respected for his literary contributions to the polemic for abstract art, not least as the Secretary General of the leading avant-garde journal Art Aujourd’hui, which was central to the cause. In 1950 he further championed the aesthetic revolution by founding with Jean Dewasne the extremely influential  Atelier d’Art Abstrait on the premises of the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1951 Pillet again demonstrated how far ahead of his time he was when he produced an abstract film Genesis, a thirteen minute film in which the “actors are straight lines, squares, rectangles and circles”; and in 1954 he published a set of short stories called “ideograms” which took the form of an album of screen-printed geometrical compositions, each “story” has a beginning and an end, acted out by forms and colours.