Décoration pour la Gare de Moscou. Design for the Decoration of the Moscow Station. by Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953

Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953
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Décoration pour la Gare de Moscou. Design for the Decoration of the Moscow Station.

Stencil print in eighteen colours. 1927. Signed in pencil. Dated 1920 in pencil (the date of the original design from which this stencil is derived). From the edition of c.50 impressions. Printed by Pouyard under the direction of Gleizes at his press in Paris in 1927 (just prior to date the studio moved to Moly-Sabata in 1928). Issued by GaleriePovolosky, Paris 1927/28. Ref: Loyer-Gleizes Estampes IV (1).

Brilliant impression with excellent totally fresh unfaded colours. On pale cream smooth wove paper. Excellent unrubbed condition. Full margins. Sheet: 25 5/8 x 19 5/8ins. Image: 14 5/8 x 11 3/8ins (373x289mm).

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A superb impression of the composition derived from Gleizes? 1920 painting of similar title ?Espace Rhythmé - Décoration Pour la Gare de Moscou?.

Like Picasso Gleizes sought the help of the greatest stencil-printer of the period for these prints, Robert Pouyard, who supervised the cutting and printing of the stencils at all stages, had first set up a studio in Paris in 1926. Then in 1927 he founded an artist?s colony on the banks of the Rhone south of Lyons which he called Moly-Sabata. The majority of both Gleizes?s and Picasso?s pochoir prints were printed at Moly-Sabata.

?Décoration Pour la Gare de Moscou? shows the perfect aesthetic links between Cubist imagery and pochoir or stencil-printing, with its sparkling perfection of shape and clear mat-surface colours.