Claude Weisbuch (1927-2014) - L'audition

Claude Weisbuch (1927- 2014), French artist.

Title of the work: The audition 84/100

Engraving - Hand-signed
Image size 29.5 x 39.5 cm
Paper size 50 x 66 cm
Signature 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, by which he likes to translate, through line, the life, movement and character of his subjects: Punchinellos, harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. For Patrick Waldberg, “the man appears as an obsessional theme in Weisbuch's work, whether he strives to capture him in the mirror by contemplating his own image, or catches him in the features of his visitors, or yet tries to decipher him in the masters of old whom he venerates, Jacques Callot, Rembrandt or Honoré Daumier.” If he practices various techniques (lithography, drypoint, etc.) that he puts to the service of illustrating bibliophile books, he is also a painter and draftsman. His preferred 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 delivers a work in constant motion and swirl on themes he favors: theater, opera, the equestrian world, musicians, card players, Kabuki dancers as well as many portraits. His works have the look of unfinished sketches, with little color but great vitality of line.

Awards and distinctions

Grand Prize for Drawing of the magazine Le Peintre (jointly with Jean-Jacques Morvan), 1956
Critics’ Prize, 1961
Knight of the Legion of Honour, 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, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne, 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 of prints and drawings of Strasbourg

Abroad

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
Gaspar Museum, collections of the Luxembourg Archaeological Institute
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 (Pol), Łódź
National Museum of Warsaw
National Museum of Fine Arts in Belgrade
Göteborgs konstmuseum
Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne