An original etching for a New Years card by Mario Prassinos (1916-1985).
Numbered 64/300. Issued by the Galerie de France, Paris 1953.
Originally born in Istanbul, Prassinos was exiled to France with his Greek parents where, as a young artist he overlapped with the Parisian Surrealists. After the war he began a longstanding relationship with Éditions Gallimard, providing etchings for work by John Paul Sartre, Arthur Rimbaud and Edgar Allen Poe.
Newly mounted and framed.
24cm x 36cm
An original etching for a New Years card by Mario Prassinos (1916-1985).
Numbered 64/300. Issued by the Galerie de France, Paris 1953.
Originally born in Istanbul, Prassinos was exiled to France with his Greek parents where, as a young artist he overlapped with the Parisian Surrealists. After the war he began a longstanding relationship with Éditions Gallimard, providing etchings for work by John Paul Sartre, Arthur Rimbaud and Edgar Allen Poe.
Newly mounted and framed.
24cm x 36cm
