3811 - Ernst Fuchs, “The Uneven Couple”

Ernst Fuchs, “The Uneven Couple” a young naked woman and an old man clinging to her arm, lithograph with colour plate on vellum, 1967, signed ‘Ernst Fuchs’ in lead below the image on the right and numbered ‘94/100’ on the left, slight signs of wear, image dimensions approx. 93 x 64.5 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 94 x 64.5 cm. Artist information: Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, architect and musician (1930 Vienna - 2015 Vienna), studied at the Vienna Academy under Albert Paris von Gütersloh from 1945 to 1950, co-founder of the “Vienna School of Fantastic Realism” in 1948, resided in Paris from 1950 to 1962, interrupted by study trips to America, Italy, Spain and England, and in 1957 spent several months at the ‘Dormitio’ monastery in Jerusalem; maintained artistic friendships with Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, Arno Breker, Mati Klarwein, Leonor Fini and the circle around Jean-Paul Sartre; returned to Vienna in 1962; 1966: Appointed professor; in the 1970s, increasingly involved in design and architectural projects as well as stage design; has worked intermittently in Monaco since 1988; received numerous honours; represented in international collections; source: Vollmer and the internet.