Homage a l’Ecole de Paris. Preface by Emily Genauer.

BLATAS, ARBIT.

Editions Marcel Sautier, Paris & Graphophile, New York

Paris / New York

1962

Fourteen lithographic portraits, featuring the artists of the School of Paris. Each signed by the artist in pencil lower right and numbered 22/350. Introductory text in English and French.

Born in Kovno, Lithuanian-Jewish artist Arbit Blatas (1908–99) moved to France as a teenager. A precocious talent he became the youngest member of the Ecole de Paris. The present work contains lithographed portraits of his friends and colleagues: Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Leger, Lipchitz, Maillol, Marquet, Matisse, Picasso, Soutine, Utrillo, Vlaminck and Vuillard.