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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean Cocteau, Visage, 1947

Jean Cocteau French, 1889-1963

Visage, 1947
Screenprint on silk
88 x 86 cm
Artist's signature lower right
Ascher's signature lower left
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During 1946-1947 the celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his so-called Artist Squares Collection. These silks were intended to be displayed in frames as well as...
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During 1946-1947 the celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his so-called Artist Squares Collection. These silks were intended to be displayed in frames as well as to be worn by fashionable ladies. Prominent artists of the time all contributed, including Calder, Cocteau, Derain, Dominguez, Laurencin, Moore, Nicholson and Picasso.
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Exhibitions

1947, Lefevre Gallery, London

1950, Galerie Doucet, Paris

1975, The Ascher Squares, Neiman Marcus, Dallas

1983, Redfern Gallery

1987, Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1990, Ascher Artists Scarves, Comme des Garçons, Tokyo

2008, Styling the Modern: Fine Art Meets Fashion, Fine Art Centre, Colorado Springs.

Literature

MENDES, Valerie and Frances HINCHCLIFFE. Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1987, ill. p. 81.

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