Claude Weisbuch (1927-2014) - Le combat de l'ange

Claude Weisbuch (1927-2014) -

The combat of the angel 16/50
Engraving - Signed by hand

Claude Weisbuch (1927- 2014), French artist.
Title of the work: The Combat of the Angel 16/50
Image size: 29 x 34 cm
Paper size: 50 x 66 cm
Signature at bottom right in pencil.
Provenance: L'estampe 31 quai des Bateliers 67000 Strasbourg: Purchase invoice dated 15/02/2007
Work in very good condition

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Work
His work is essentially devoted to engraving, through which he likes to translate, by means of the line, the life, movement and character of his subjects: Punch and Judy figures, Harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. For Patrick Waldberg, “man appears as an obsessive theme in Weisbuch's work, whether he strives to capture him in the mirror by contemplating his own image, or to surprise him in the features of his visitors, or again to try to decipher him in the masters of the past whom he venerates, Jacques Callot, Rembrandt or Honoré Daumier.”[8] If he practices various techniques (lithography, dry point, etc.) which he puts at the service of book illustration for bibliophiles, he is also a painter and draftsman. His favored colors are ochres, browns and whites, with which he seeks to introduce light effects through compositions where the line and the fineness of drawing preserve the life found in his engravings.

His precise and dynamic line yields a movement-filled, swirling body of work on themes he loves: theater, opera, the equestrian milieu, musicians, card players, kabuki dancers as well as numerous portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches, mixing little color but with great liveliness of the line[.

Awards and distinctions

Grand Prize for drawing from the magazine Le Peintre (jointly with Jean-Jacques Morvan), 1956
Critics’ Prize, 1961
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, 1997
Title of “living god” awarded by the Emperor of Japan

Public collections in France

Musée du Cheval, château de Chantilly, Le Cheval, etchings for the eponymous work by Leo Tolstoy, 1982
Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes:
Department of Prints and Photography of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris:
National Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Fonds national d'art contemporain, Puteaux:
Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1974
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Étienne:
Cabinet des estampes et des dessins de Strasbourg

Abroad

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
South Australian National Gallery, Adelaide
Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
Musée Gaspar, collections of the Institute of Archaeology of Luxembourg
United States
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art of Skopje
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
National Museum in Krakow
Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi (PL), Łódź
National Museum in Warsaw
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Göteborgs Konstmuseum (Gothenburg Museum of Art)
Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne