25 - PIERRE GUASTALLA (1891–1968): a series of personalized greeting cards sent

PIERRE GUASTALLA (1891–1968): a series of personalized greeting cards sent by the artist (French painter, printmaker, and illustrator; founder of the group La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine) in the early 1950s. ​Original engravings (etching or drypoint ) printed on greeting cards made of heavy-weight/vatted paper, numbered and initialed/signed by hand (initials “P.G.” or signature “Guastalla”). The cards date precisely from the period 1950 to 1953 (the handwritten inscriptions “for 1950,” “for 1951,” “ for 1952,” “for 1953” appear at the bottom of the print on each sheet). ​Also included is a work by BARAZER FRANÇOIS (1898–1981), an engraving/lithograph on paper (with a monogram in the print) depicting The Couple / Adam and Eve, signed with his usual monogram “FB” in a circle in the lower right corner. ​Circa 1930–1950 (the artist’s main period of activity for this type of illustration and prints in a stylized figurative Art Deco/Modern style). Crease in the upper right corner.