Mourlot Editions

11/16/2020

11/11/2020

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." Miró said | Atelier Mourlot Bank Street by Joan Miró | Original Lithographic Poster from 1967 | For Sale on our Website.

11/01/2020

“The love of simplicity, precision and clarity, is totally Western. Today’s rational plastic form does not come from the Mediterranean or the Orient; it comes from the North (of France). The North, younger, quicker less subtle, has seen straight to the heart of the new problem of construction that is posed by modern life”
Read this quote in today’s context and it will take a brand new meaning... we love Léger for his honesty and simplicity! But also his kindness... never judge a book by its cover! ❤️❤️
#1966

10/29/2020

“Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.”
Francoise Gilot (1921- )
A beautiful original poster created as an homage to Fernand Mourlot in 1991 by the artist. 30” x 22”.

10/23/2020

“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not. They are pre-psychological expanses, red, for example, presupposing a site radiating heat... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
Yves Klein (1928 — 1962)
This large and beautiful lithographic poster printed by us in 1973 is... iconic blue!
#1973

10/06/2020

“ I want to work so I cannot spend all my time in bars and spend the next morning with a hangover.” Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
The French expressionist painter, for whom a first Museum was created in Japan in 1973, has been getting much renewed attention...
This beautiful original lithographic poster from 1978 is 26” x 20”.
It is a beautiful homage to St. Tropez where he spent much of his time, near his home of Tourtour!

10/03/2020

Picasso said that "the lack of knowledge of Beaudin's work constitutes one of the greatest injustices of our time.”
That is what we call an artists’ artist... people that know... know how good these people are! They get their inspiration from them... they are not the usual. They are not good at marketing... but they are the real thing!!!
We were lucky because this wild one went to school with Fernand Mourlot when they were 16 yrs old!!
So graceful...

09/28/2020

Missing Paris...!!! Missing my grandfather!!! If anyone can send us a Picture of themselves at the Place Fernand Mourlot under this sign...! We will send you $200 purchasing credit to our website until oct. 2, 2021! (Shipping will be paid by us!)
So proud for the good my father and my grandfather did for the arts... with artists... during WWII... for humanity! I hope that one day, I can live up to their legacy. I am humbled by these good, kind... but smart and tough men!
Place Fernand Mourlot, Paris, 75014
Montparnasse

09/27/2020

In 1976, Robert Indiana designed the costumes for the Santa Fe Opera production of Gertrude Stein: “The Mother of us All”... we printed the Portfolio in 1977.
Here is a B.A.T proof, initialed and corrected in the margins by the artist.
(The Mother of Us All is a two-act opera composed by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. She wrote the libretto in the winter of 1945–46, sending it to Thomson in March of 1946; he began the score that October, shortly after Stein's death in July, and completed it early in 1947. [1] The opera chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States.)

09/24/2020

Édouard Manet once said about insults that:
“No one knows what it feels like to be constantly insulted. It sickens and destroys you… The fools! They’ve never stopped telling me I’m inconsistent; they couldn’t have said anything more flattering.”
Beautiful lithographic poster in perfect condition printed at Mourlot in 1961
#1961

09/22/2020

“He who knows how to appreciate colour relationships, the influence of one colour on another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinitely diverse imagery.”
Sonia Delaunay
A pristine lithographic poster by a groundbreaking artist and feminist!
Printed by Mourlot in 1975 to celebrate the International Year of the Woman - UNESCO

09/20/2020

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
For Braque, birds were a representation of the souls of men. It became a major and powerful symbol in the late years of his life!