Author: OLYFF Michel - Florent Welles ( provenance ) :
Title: Calendrier 1951. Gravures de Michel Olyff.
Description: 12. Bruxelles, Editions de la Gazelle Rouge, imprimé sur les Presses de l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs, juin 1950, tall in-8°, 25 x 14 cm, (54) nn pp, with 12 full page two-toned wood cuts, sewn, original printed pictorial wrapper. Printed in only 20 numbered copies (this is copy n°7). With a handwritten ex-dono to Florent Welles on the first fly leaf. Loosely inserted is the artist's wedding announcement . ( afolded monochrome print on brown paper). The belgian graphic artist and designer Michel Olyff was born in Antwerp in 1927. He attended courses in graphic design at the ''La Cambre'' institute in Brussels with Joris Minne and Lucien De Roeck. Between 1949 and 1952 he participated at the ''Ateliers du Marais'' together with Olivier Strebelle , Reinhoud and Pierre Alechinsky. This venue was also used by '' Cobra ''. Well preserved and rare example of the innovative graphic style of Olyff containing 12 prints . They illustrate , in a subtle way, the coming together of a young couple. .

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