Football/A.Decaris/Belle-Ile/Militaria/Olympic... - Lot 181 - Vermot et Associés

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Football/A.Decaris/Belle-Ile/Militaria/Olympic... - Lot 181 - Vermot et Associés
Football/A.Decaris/Belle-Ile/Militaria/Olympic Games/Rome/ Albert Decaris (1901-1988), winner of the Prix de Rome for engraving in 1929, is known as an immense graphic artist, with a considerable body of work overflowing with life and joy, in which case he could not fail to be insensitive to the charms of sport. Author of the stamp of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Tour de France in 1953, and dozens of other "muscular" escapes, the one who was also Olympic champion of engraving at the London Games in 1948 (yes, yes), was thus well and truly inspired by soccer. And please, not just any soccer: a war soccer, a soccer concerning him, because in 1939, Sergeant Decaris was recalled to the army. We are in the phoney war, and in Belle-Ile, please, at Vauban, the biffins meet the sailors in an epic match by the sea and in several episodes. Albert is in it. To play, our armed footballers have only their good will, and this soccer of misfortune in clogs and caps touches us. Playing on his connections and talent, the artist launches a call "to equipment". Goodrich Colombes, the equipment manufacturer for whom he worked in peacetime, hears Decaris' SOS, and will make sure to offer a real ball, while waiting for cleats, shirts and shorts. Albert's biffins dominate the Taillefer battery's cannoniers (6-0) at the end of a match of anthology. To say that this image will become the breath of fresh air for the fighters of the Maginot Line would be an understatement. Certainly, it is in any case, a major piece of insular sports art ... A spray of small dots of oxidation seems to contribute to the truth of the work. Lithography under light frame, with original legend printed on the back, it is it which showing the total implication of Decaris acts as signature because between modesty and obligation of reserve, the artist did not sign. 54X70.
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