Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020) - Visage, aigle et croissant (vendu sans prix de réserve)






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Pierre-Yves Trémois, Visage, aigle et croissant, a 1980 lithograph of 44 x 28.8 cm, hand-signed, edition 107/200, in good condition, France.
Description from the seller
We present to you a very beautiful print depicting a face, an eagle, and a crescent by the artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020) Engraver / Surrealist Draftsman
Title: Face, Eagle and Crescent.
Artist: Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020)
Technique: print. Etching on vellum paper.
Signature: signed by hand in pencil, numbered 107/200.
Total sheet size: 44 cm x 28.8 cm.
Condition: Good.
Pierre-Yves TRÉMOIS (1921-2020)
Born January 8, 1921 in Paris 16th arrondissement – Died August 16, 2020 at Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche (99 years)
Full name: Pierre-Yves Gabriel Trémois
Nationality: French
Activity: draftsman, painter, engraver, sculptor, ceramicist, medalist
Son of Eugène Trémois (man of letters)
Studied at Janson-de-Sailly High School then ENSBA Paris, pupil of Fernand Sabatté
1938 - Admitted at 17 to the Beaux-Arts
1943 - First Grand Prix de Rome for painting
1944 - Devotes himself to burin and etching
1951-1952 - Resident at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
Nicknamed "crazy about the line". Pure, precise line, between surrealism and scientific illustration, anatomy, eroticism, fantasy.
Over 1000 engravings.
Monumental work: Energies (1977), bronze sculpture for the RATP, Châtelet-Les Halles RER station, Paris
1978 - Entered the Academy of Fine Arts, engraving section, seat 2. Dean of the Academy.
Member of the Academy of Drawing in Florence, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Illustrator of rare books: Apocalypse of Saint John (1961) with Buffet and Dalí
Officer of the Legion of Honor 2008, Commander of Arts and Letters 2015, Knight of the Order of Academic Palms
Seller's Story
We present to you a very beautiful print depicting a face, an eagle, and a crescent by the artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020) Engraver / Surrealist Draftsman
Title: Face, Eagle and Crescent.
Artist: Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020)
Technique: print. Etching on vellum paper.
Signature: signed by hand in pencil, numbered 107/200.
Total sheet size: 44 cm x 28.8 cm.
Condition: Good.
Pierre-Yves TRÉMOIS (1921-2020)
Born January 8, 1921 in Paris 16th arrondissement – Died August 16, 2020 at Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche (99 years)
Full name: Pierre-Yves Gabriel Trémois
Nationality: French
Activity: draftsman, painter, engraver, sculptor, ceramicist, medalist
Son of Eugène Trémois (man of letters)
Studied at Janson-de-Sailly High School then ENSBA Paris, pupil of Fernand Sabatté
1938 - Admitted at 17 to the Beaux-Arts
1943 - First Grand Prix de Rome for painting
1944 - Devotes himself to burin and etching
1951-1952 - Resident at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
Nicknamed "crazy about the line". Pure, precise line, between surrealism and scientific illustration, anatomy, eroticism, fantasy.
Over 1000 engravings.
Monumental work: Energies (1977), bronze sculpture for the RATP, Châtelet-Les Halles RER station, Paris
1978 - Entered the Academy of Fine Arts, engraving section, seat 2. Dean of the Academy.
Member of the Academy of Drawing in Florence, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Illustrator of rare books: Apocalypse of Saint John (1961) with Buffet and Dalí
Officer of the Legion of Honor 2008, Commander of Arts and Letters 2015, Knight of the Order of Academic Palms
