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Louise Nevelson
"I constructed a reality for myself."
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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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La sculptrice américaine, née en Russie, Louise Nevelson est morte le 17 avril 1988 à New York ; elle avait 88 ans. Elle repose dans le cimetière d'Acworth dans le Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Etats-unis. En son hommage, avec respect, cette marguerite.
"Je veux devenir sculpteur et je ne veux pas l’aide de la couleur." - Louise Nevelson
"J'ai vu mes premiers Picasso et cela m'a donné une définition de la structure du monde. " - Louise Nevelson
"Je pourrais être une feuille sur l'arbre à Paris, mais je pourrais être l'arbre entier en Amérique. " - Louise Nevelson
"Les sculptures de Nevelson traitent du mythe et du mystère et, bien qu'elle se soit inspirée des motifs du monde qui l'entoure, elle a déclaré s'identifier aux idées plus qu'à la nature." - Virginia M. Mecklenburg
"Le noir n'était pas une négation de couleur. C'était une acceptation. Parce que le noir englobe toutes les couleurs" - Louise Nevelson
"Si un objet est au bon endroit, il est amélioré par la grandeur. Plus que cela, cela plaît à l'être intérieur et cela, je pense, est très important. Cela équivaut à l'harmonie." - Louise Nevelson
Notes of biography
Louise Berliawsky was born in 1899 in Kiev, Ukraine. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1905. She married in 1920 and became Louise Nevelson and in that same year began to study drawing, painting, singing and dramatic arts. At the end of the 20’s, Louise Nevelson takes lessons at the Art Students League of New York. Afterwards she works with Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1931 then later with Diego Riviera in New York and Mexico where she assists him on certain projects.
From 1933 Nevelson exhibits her engravings and paintings, and shows her sculptures for the first time her in 1941. From 1949-1950 she begins to work with clay, aluminum and bronze at the Sculpture Centre, then begins to engrave with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.
In the 50’s she is one of the first American Sculptors to exhibit assemblages. The artist fits, into stacked crates, relics of pieces of wood of all sorts, and then constructs abstract, monumental and baroque architectural works. These pieces, like their titles, suggest an imaginary and poetic world. The first sculptures of Louise Nevelson are entirely painted in a matt black. She becomes more luminous and lyrical. The sculptures that follow are white, where the artist incorporates mirrors or Plexiglas.
In the 80’s Louise Nevelson will respond to a public request, creating large urban sculptures, cutting metal and fragments that she assembles. The work of Louise Nevelson, who pursued a long artistic career, are today some of the most important of museum collections.
Louise Nevelson died in 1988 in New York.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
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.
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*« The prints 1953-1973 », Gene Baro, Pace Editions, New York, 1974
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Nevelson », Colette Roberts, The Pocket Museum, Ed. Georges Fall, Paris, 1964
- « Louise Nevelson », A. B. Glimcher, Praeger Publishers Inc., New York, 1972
- « Louise Nevelson », Centre national d'Art Contemporain, 1974
- « A Decade of Sculpture », J. M. Busch, The Art Alliance P., Philadelphie, 1974
- « L. Nevelson : iconography and sources », L. Wilson, Garland Publisher, N.Y., 1981
- « Nevelson », G. Celant, Charta, Milan, 1994
- « Hôtel des Amériques », F. de Mèredieu, Ed. Blusson, Paris, 1996
- « L. Nevelson », coll., cat., M. Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Ed. Skira, 1996
- « American Abstract Expressionim of the 1950s », M. Herskovic, N. Y. School Press, 2003
- « L. Nevelson - Art is life », L. Wilson, Thames & Hudson Ed., 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Aubes et crépuscules », conversations avec D. Mac Kown, Ed. des Femmes, 1983
- « Interview for the archives of American Art », Arnold Glimcher, sur internet, 2011
Website :
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nevelsonMore :
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Stamp by Louise Nevelson
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
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Louise Nevelson
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
La sculptrice américaine, née en Russie, Louise Nevelson est morte le 17 avril 1988 à New York ; elle avait 88 ans. Elle repose dans le cimetière d'Acworth dans le Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Etats-unis. En son hommage, avec respect, cette marguerite.
"Je veux devenir sculpteur et je ne veux pas l’aide de la couleur." - Louise Nevelson
"J'ai vu mes premiers Picasso et cela m'a donné une définition de la structure du monde. " - Louise Nevelson
"Je pourrais être une feuille sur l'arbre à Paris, mais je pourrais être l'arbre entier en Amérique. " - Louise Nevelson
"Les sculptures de Nevelson traitent du mythe et du mystère et, bien qu'elle se soit inspirée des motifs du monde qui l'entoure, elle a déclaré s'identifier aux idées plus qu'à la nature." - Virginia M. Mecklenburg
"Le noir n'était pas une négation de couleur. C'était une acceptation. Parce que le noir englobe toutes les couleurs" - Louise Nevelson
"Si un objet est au bon endroit, il est amélioré par la grandeur. Plus que cela, cela plaît à l'être intérieur et cela, je pense, est très important. Cela équivaut à l'harmonie." - Louise Nevelson
Art movements
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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