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[20th CENTURY ART - ABSTRACT ART - OBJECT BOOKS - PRIVATE COLLECTION]

To be continued in my ebay store, more than 100 original works of contemporary art,

lithographs, paintings, drawings, engravings, illustrated books, catalogs, etc.

coming directly from the

Personal collection of

raoul-jean moulin

1934-2014

A major figure in contemporary art between the 1960s and 2000s, the art critic, exhibition curator and mediator raoul-jean moulin was a tireless talent scout alongside his friend Pierre Restany

Louis Aragon was the first to salute his eye and his pen, placed at the service of French letters (1958-1972),Opus International (1967-1972) and Humanity (1974-1998).

Curator of numerous exhibitions - including that of the French Pavilion at the 36th Venice Biennale in 1972 where he brought together Viseux, Boltanski, Titus-Carmel, Hernandez and Le Gac - daring traveler and determined to make the voice of art heard during the During the Cold War, he made known in France - and beyond - the work of contemporary artists from the former USSR, GDR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia - Kijno, Kolar, Mlynarcik, Mihaïlovitch...

At the forefront of creation in France, he was one of the pillars of the Paris Biennale for 15 years, co-founded the series of Make visible, created Châtillon des arts as well as numerous exhibitions in Val-de-Marne.

Appointed director of the Val-de-Marne Departmental Contemporary Art Fund in 1982, he built up the important collection at the origin of the MAC VAL, with names such as Asse, Manessier, Debré, Villeglé, Soulages...

Secretary general of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and recognized with numerous distinctions, raoul-jean moulin , affected by a serious health accident, donated his archives to MAC VAL in 2007.

raoul-jean moulin was Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (1985), National Knight of Merit (1989) and Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor (2003).

Silvano LORA

1931-2003

Silvano Lora was an artist from the Dominican Republic.

His work as a painter, sculptor and fresco artist was influenced among others

by the movement of New Realists and of Arte Povera

Politically engaged He was very sensitive to social and humanitarian issues in the world

He was born on July 17, 1931. He studied from the age of 15 at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Plastiques and in 1951, he had his first solo exhibition at the Alliance Française in Santo Domingo. Lora presented her work in places like Sao Paolo (1952), Puerto Rico (1954). Spain and Cairo, Paris (1957-1958), Copenhagen and Rome (1960), Panama, Moscow (1985) and Korea among others.

He has had 27 personal exhibitions and 11 collective exhibitions, his last exhibition in 2001

A very rare work!!

Poem by Silvano LORA

illustrated with 4 superb original compositions all signed and dated in pencil

by the Artist

LORA (Silvano)

1931-2003

“Dialogue with Venus”

[Dialogue with Venus]

Presentation text by

Alain JOUFFROY:

“Introduction to Silvano Lora”