Animation by Camile Bryen, 1907-1997

Camile Bryen, 1907-1997
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Animation

Etching with aquatint and engraving printed in colours. 1974/75. Signed in pencil. Numbered in pencil from the edition of 100 impressions (Total edition of 145 plus 10 artist's proofs). Edition printed at the Visat Studio, Paris 1974/75. Issued in the series: 'René Crevel, La Mysticité Charnelle', Editions Georges Visat, Paris 1976.
Colours: Green, blue-black and brown.

Extremely fine strong impression with perfect colours. On pale cream wove Arches paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 15 x 11 1/8ins. Plate: 10 1/4 x 6 7/8 ins (260x173mm)

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Bryen was both a painter and a poet. In a career which spanned the birth of abstract imagery in the 1920?s to the culmination of the great impetus of the ?School of Paris? in the 1970?s he was an artist of constant imagination and creativity. In the 1930?s influenced by the ideas of the Surrealists he started to create his ?automatic drawings? - images made up of tiny patterns of stroke and touch. It was this feeling for random but evocative patterns built out of a mosaic of lines that was to remain the fudemental elemnt of his style even into the years after the Second War when he was one of the leading exponents of Art Informel.

Like Wols, with whom he has many stylistic links, it was the essentially graphic quality of Bryen?s art which made his prints, and especially his etchings and gravure works, of such interest. His earliest such works date from 1948 and it was in the following year that he first linked poetry and print imagery. He described his style as ?un graphisme sans signification? - graphic strokes without description. In the work above the combination of an intricate arrangement of seemingly random but at the same time quasi-descriptive strokes in blue and green, linked to the texture of a free aquatint wash in brown is absolutely typical of the best of his mature style in the 1960?s.