Antonio Seguí - Originalplakat - Roland Garros 1999

Color offset lithography by artist Antonio Seguí designed for the Roland Garros tournament 1999

Original poster (not a reproduction) on the occasion of the Roland Garros tennis tournament 1999
Copyright: Galerie Lelong Paris

Artist: Antonio Seguí (* January 11, 1934 in Córdoba, Argentina; † February 26, 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Occasion: Roland Garros tennis tournament 1999 (French Open Paris)
Printing technique: Color offset lithography
Signature: signed in the plate
Dimensions: 75.00 x 57.00 cm
Publisher: Galerie Lelong - Paris
Printer: Arte - Paris
Condition: excellent

The graphics have been stored very carefully in a graphics cabinet, protected from dust and UV. Therefore, excellent condition. The artwork has of course not yet been framed.

Shipping is carried out very carefully packaged in professional packaging with maximum protection against any damage. The package is additionally insured against damage and loss, at no extra cost to the buyer.

About the artist:

Antonio Seguí, one of the most internationally renowned Argentine artists, was born in 1934 in Córdoba. He studied at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, Spain, as well as at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. In 1955 he returned to Córdoba, where he studied law and exhibited his first paintings. He traveled extensively through South and Central America before moving permanently to France in 1963, where he lived and worked in Arcueil near Paris until his death in February 2022 at the age of 88 in Buenos Aires.

At the beginning of his career, Seguí’s work was close to expressionist figuration, full of irony. Gradually his figuration drifted into the absurd, and he built a kind of theatre, a stage on which a man in motion searches for his place in the world. With charcoal, pastels, pencil, or pen, he conjures a colorful, graphic world that seems to come from the universe of comics, with the backdrop of urban life.

Seguí’s works are collected and exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA, New York; the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria; Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris organized a retrospective of his works on paper in 2005. His works are in the permanent collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, to name just a few.

About the artwork:

Roland Garros is the traditional home of the annually held Internationaux de France; the tennis tournament is worldwide better known as the French Open. This is one of the official posters that were designed and created each year for the tennis tournament at Roland Garros.