Marcel Mouly (1918-2008) French, Signed and Numbered Cubist Still Life Lithograph. Title: "Fruita y Vino." Signed in pencil bottom right. Numbered 53/300 in pencil bottom left. 

Condition: Very minor apologies on frame. 

Overall Size: 21 1/2 x 23 in. 

Sight Size: 10 3/4 x 12 in. 

Marcel Mouly was born in Paris, France on February 6th, 1918. His interest in art developed in grade school when he took his first drawing class, and at the age of 13 he left school to work a series of odd jobs. In 1938 he enlisted in the military, and after France fell to Germany he and fellow artist Bernard la Fourcade were imprisoned as spies by the Nazis in 1942. Mouly made the most of his solitary confinement by practicing artwork with any tools he could acquire, and after obtaining his freedom in 1944 he and artist Édouard Pignon studied under the modernist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, who taught him about Cubism. His first exhibition was alongside the paintings of Henri Matisse in the Salon d’Automne in 1945. The following year he moved to La Ruche where he became friends with Picasso, Chagall, and Klein, and exhibited at the Salon du Mai. Mouly’s first one man exhibition was held in 1949 at the Libraire Bergamasque. From the mid 1950s onward Mouly also became fascinated with lithography, and enjoyed making multiple print versions of a single piece to give each one a new feeling. Mouly’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Museum of Geneva, the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He has also been the subject of numerous books, and was recognized by such honors as the Chevalier de L’Orde des Arts et Lettres (1957) and the Premier Prix de Lithographie (1973). Mouly died on January 7th, 2008.

Very minor apologies on frame. 

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