Lithograph by Josef BANC, composition 1957

Composition, 1957. Original lithograph on Rives BFK paper Signed and dated in the plate lower left. Countersigned in pencil lower right. Annotated EA and dedicated. 65 x 50 cm. Impeccable, fresh condition, never framed. Artist listed on Artprice. Born in 1930 in Paris. Jef Banc's work emerged in the 1950s, amidst the controversy between figuration and abstraction. Jef Banc focuses his research and work on the origins of life and energy: the world of the spiral, bipolarity, the infinitely small, the infinitely large, and writing. His beginnings coincided with the flourishing of the masters of the School of Paris in the 1950s: Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Camille Bryen, Jean Fautrier….