Printer: M.H. Lavore Co., New York; Publisher: Tanglewood Press, New York, publisher
Excellent condition. Never framed. Superb provenance: from the original complete New York International Portfolio
Publication: Pop Impressions Europe/USA, page 52, Museum of Modern Art, 1999, 1st Edition, published by MOMA. Edited by Wendy Weitman, published in conjunction with the MOMA exhibition.
Provenance: New York International Portfolio, Rosa Esman
Catalogue Raisonné: #5, Oyvind Fahlstrom Foundation Online Catalogue Raisonne
Brazilian-born Swedish artist Oyvind Fahlstrom,emigrated to Paris and then New York, and burst onto the international art scene after being included in the groundbreaking exhibition "The New Realists" at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1962. In 1964, he participated in the Venice Biennale. A descendant of Surrealism, he actively incorporated chance into art. For his format and imagery, Fahlstrom borrowed heavily from popular culture sources, continuously drawing from his vast files of magazine photographs and comic books. In 1966, he was invited by publisher Rosa Esman of Tanglewood Press to participate in her portfolio New York International. At the time, he had just completed the variable painting "Eddie (Sylvie's brother) in the Desert". It was titled after the popular European singer Sylvie Vartan and her brother Eddie, the band leader. To make this color screenprint, he had the painting photographically reproduced, adding a strip of small elements along the left edge with the words "CUT OUT AND ARRANGE" at the lower right. Another example of this particular print is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. According to the catalogue "Pop Impressions Europe/USA", published by MOMA in 1999, Fahlstrom "had developed a cutout paper-doll format, hoping the collectors would do just that and create their own variable print....many of the individual elements are derived from dreamlike imagery, often based on Fahlstrom's native Brazil, including the mountains at lower left and the column of people marching through the desert in the center." Fahlstrom's playful, fragmented comic-like compositions are said to anticipate the work of European artists of the Nouvelle Figuration group. He died in 1976 at the age of 48.