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Antoine Pevsner
"Depth is the single form of expression of space."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Antoine Pevsner, naturalisé français en 1930, est mort le 12 avril 1962 à Paris au terme d’une maladie incurable. N’ayant laissé aucun testament, sa femme réalisait pourtant une donation au Musée National d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, réalisant par ce geste « l’un des plus chers désirs de son défunt mari ». Antoine Pevsner repose au Cimetière russe de Sainte Geneviève des bois (Essonne). Un bleuet et sa magnifique structure, en hommage à sa mémoire.
"Le « Manifeste réaliste » affirme comme nécessaire la destruction de la masse compacte et la quête de l'espace et du temps." - Jean-Claude Marcadé
"Les deux frères (Pevsner et Naum Gabo) refusent le volume comme expression spatiale. L'espace peut autant être mesuré par un volume qu'un liquide pourrait l'être par un mètre linéaire. La profondeur est l'unique forme d'expression de l'espace." - Dora Vallier
"Voulant libérer la sculpture du poids de la masse, du bloc, Pevsner livre avec le métal un combat permanent contre la pesanteur." - Doïna Lemny, conservatrice au Centre Georges Pompidou
"Pevsner évite la société et s’est fait, dans ses longues années d’isolement, une expression plastique pour l’usage de sa propre vision." - Christian Zervos
"La substance même, la poésie de la géométrie." - Charles Estienne
"Il fallut inventer une sculpture qui parte du vide, à la ressemblance de l’architecture, quand celle-ci n’a recours au plein que pour engendrer le vide." - Antoine Pevsner
Notes of biography
Nathan Pevsner was born in 1884 in Orel in Belarus. He studies at the School of Fine Arts of Kiev, then at the Academy of Beaux-Art in St. Petersburg. Pevsner lives in Paris from 1911 to 1913, then from 1914 to 1915, the year that he joins his brother Naum Gabo, in Oslo. Pevsner paints his first abstract canvases in 1913. The two brothers belong to a Russian bourgeoisie that valued technical and scientific progress. In 1917, he returns to Moscow and teaches painting at the National studio of free art, then in 1919-1920, in Vkhoutemas. The artist starts to research the pigments of material and fabrics by crushing different vegetal and mineral materials.
In 1920, with his brother composes the ‘Manifeste realiste’ (Realist Manifesto) that they put on the walls of the city; this text militates for a total detachment in relation to the reality which the Pevsner strives exceed the appearance. The two brothers organize an exhibition of their work in the public garden Tverskoi in the centre of Moscow. The defense of abstract art becomes an unbearable position in the context where creation in the service of the revolution must be accessible to all and strictly tied to industrial production. In 1921, accused of producing ‘a capitalist art’, his studio is closed by the powers above and he is forbidden to teach.
Antoine Pevsner immigrates to Berlin in 1921, then moves to Paris in 1923, obtaining French nationality seven years later (He frenchifies his first name at this time, Nathan becomes Antoine).
After his debut in 1917 in Norway, the artists puts his effort into sculpture in 1923 and produces the plastic constructions, creating forms and coloring them with a looseness of luminous specters. In 1927, with his brother he creates the décor and costumes for the ballet ‘Constructivistes’ of Diaghilev. From the 1930 Antoine Pevsner uses brass wires, bronze and other metals and solders segments of juxtaposed lines to penetrate space in a dynamic manner. The artist completes a series of bas-reliefs. In 1932, Pevsner becomes a member of the Abstraction-Creation. Pevsner takes the column as his theme, then the oval. In 1947, he co-founds the Salon Réalités Nouvelles. In the 50’s, he produces commissions for architectural works.
Antoine Pevsner creates a void and works on space and time, essential dimensions of sculpture. Before his death, the artist donates to MNAM Georges Pompidou Centre a set of sculptures, paintings and drawings that today constitute the richest collection of his works worldwide.
Antoine Pevsner died in Paris in 1962.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Antoine Pevsner », C. Giedon-Welcker, Ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1961 *« Antoine Pevsner, l'oeuvre sculpté », E. Lebon, P. Brullé, Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris, 2002 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Pevsner », in L’oeil n° 23, Ed. Sedo, Lausanne, Suisse, Novembre 1956
- « The artist in his studio », A. Liberman, Ed. Thames and Hudson, 1961
- « Antoine Pevsner », P. Peissi et autres, Ed. Du Griffon, Neuchâtel, 1961
- « Le dessin dans l'oeuvre de Pevsner », Bernard Dorival, Ed. Collection Prisme,
- « 5 European sculptors, Gabo, Pevsner, Moore, ... », Ed. Moma, 1969
- « L’avant-garde russe », Jean-Claude Marcadé, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1995
- « Pevsner - Colloque », Musée Rodin, Paris, Art Edition, 1995
- « Sa vie, son oeuvre », A. Lardera, Thèse de doctorat, Paris IV Sorbonne, 1997
- « A. Pevsner », D. Lemny, Col. La Collection, MNAM Pompidou, Paris, 2001
- « Pevsner, The early life…», S. Games, Continuum Int. Publishing Group, 2010
To read from the artist :
- « Revue l'Oeil N°23 », A. Pevsner et autres, Ed. Sedo S.A, 1956
- « Manifeste réaliste », avec Naum Gabo, 1920. Ed. Réunion des musées nationaux, 1971
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Stamp by Antoine Pevsner
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Antoine Pevsner
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Antoine Pevsner, naturalisé français en 1930, est mort le 12 avril 1962 à Paris au terme d’une maladie incurable. N’ayant laissé aucun testament, sa femme réalisait pourtant une donation au Musée National d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, réalisant par ce geste « l’un des plus chers désirs de son défunt mari ». Antoine Pevsner repose au Cimetière russe de Sainte Geneviève des bois (Essonne). Un bleuet et sa magnifique structure, en hommage à sa mémoire.
"Le « Manifeste réaliste » affirme comme nécessaire la destruction de la masse compacte et la quête de l'espace et du temps." - Jean-Claude Marcadé
"Les deux frères (Pevsner et Naum Gabo) refusent le volume comme expression spatiale. L'espace peut autant être mesuré par un volume qu'un liquide pourrait l'être par un mètre linéaire. La profondeur est l'unique forme d'expression de l'espace." - Dora Vallier
"Voulant libérer la sculpture du poids de la masse, du bloc, Pevsner livre avec le métal un combat permanent contre la pesanteur." - Doïna Lemny, conservatrice au Centre Georges Pompidou
"Pevsner évite la société et s’est fait, dans ses longues années d’isolement, une expression plastique pour l’usage de sa propre vision." - Christian Zervos
"La substance même, la poésie de la géométrie." - Charles Estienne
"Il fallut inventer une sculpture qui parte du vide, à la ressemblance de l’architecture, quand celle-ci n’a recours au plein que pour engendrer le vide." - Antoine Pevsner
Art movements
+ ABSTRACTION-CREATION / 1931-1938 / Etienne Béothy, Frantisek Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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