Our April Editions exhibition and auction in New York features over 100 etchings and aquatints from the collection of master printer and engraver Piero Crommelynck. While most frequently remembered as Picasso’s favorite printer of his late etchings, the “Prince of the printers,” as film director Jean-Michel Meurice would call him, in his over forty-year career, Piero famously worked alongside his brother Aldo to bring to life graphic works of art.
The pair developed technical processes for numerous artists who would come to define the visual culture of the 20th century — from modernist peintre-graveur Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Le Corbusier to post-war painter and printmaker David Hockney, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns and Richard Hamilton, all included in this sale.
In this video, Hubert Lacroix, Director of the Susse Foundry, joins our Worldwide Co-Head of Editions, Kelly Troester, in our galleries in Paris, to talk about this incredible collection, and the lives of the artists, the tools and the techniques of what is considered the apex of fine art printmaking in the 20th century.
Also see Master Printmaker: Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection