b/w mezzotint
1971
8 1/2 x 8 3/8
edition: 75
signed in pencil
A hen sits on her nest with two eggs in view. Mario Avati created a suite of 10 mezzotints titled Noah's Ark of which Poule is one. This 1971 mezzotint is created in an edition of 75 and signed in pencil.
Mario Avari Morrocan, 1921 – 2009 Born in Monaco of Italian parents, Avati has lived in Paris for most of his life. He worked in Nice at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs and later studied with Marc Chagall at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He began his professional career as a printmaker in 1947 and started using the mezzotint medium by 1950. In the late 1960s, Avati was instrumental in the contemporary development of color mezzotints. His work is represented in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world including: the Musee du Louvre, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
