Alain Kirili
To Cecil Taylor, Sculptor, 1995
Lithograph
Pencil signed, dated and numbered 91/100 on the lower front
Frame Included
This work is floated and framed
Measurements:
Frame:
10 x 10 x 1 inch
Print:
6 x 6 inches
About Alain Kirili:
Born in Paris, France, 1946
Died in New York City, 2021
ALAIN KIRILI was a French-American sculptor born in Paris, France 1946, died in New York City 2021. He has had solo museum exhibitions with the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris; the Musée Rodin, Paris; and the Brooklyn Museum. Kirili has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMA P.S. 1, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Jardin du Palais-Royal, Paris. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the Nasher Sculpture Center among others.
Courtesy of Susan Inglett Galery
ABOUT CECIL TAYLOR
Cecil Taylor (b. 1929) is a towering, sometimes divisive figure within twentieth-century music. In the early 1960s, with fellow maverick artists Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and others, he revolutionized jazz by extending bebop into a radical terrain dubbed the "New Thing" or "free jazz"—the latter a term with political as well as aesthetic connotations given the social changes underway at the time in America. For Taylor, freedom meant a deep synthesis of the modern composers such as Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky that he encountered during his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music with the nuanced and original piano innovations of Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Bud Powell...
Category
1990s Minimalist Permanent Marker Figurative Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Permanent Marker
