Antonio Seguí - Originalplakat - Roland Garros 1999

Color-offset lithography by the 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 (born January 11, 1934 in Córdoba, Argentina; died February 26, 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Event: Roland Garros Tennis Tournament 1999 (French Open Paris)
Printing technique: color-offset lithography
Signature: signed on 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 graphic cabinet, dust- and UV-protected. Therefore excellent condition. The artwork has, of course, not yet been framed.

Delivery is carried out very carefully packaged in professional packaging with maximum protection against any damage. The package is additionally insured against damage and loss, without the buyer incurring any costs.

About the artist:

Antonio Seguí, one of the internationally most renowned Argentine artists, was born in 1934 in Córdoba. He studied at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, Spain, as well as at the Ecole 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 evolved into the absurd, and he built a kind of theater, a stage on which a man in motion searches for his place in the world. With charcoal, pastel, pencil or ink, he brings to life a colorful and graphic world that seems to come from the universe of comics, with the background representing all urban activity.

Seguí's works are collected and exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA, New York; 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 work:

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