Colette Darfeuil Portrait of a Lady with a Hat Signed Fine Art lithograph Print.

Enhance your art collection with a stunning Colette Darfeuil lithograph print, featuring a beautiful portrait of a lady elegantly adorned with a hat, and personally signed by the artist.

Artist: Collete Darfeuil
Title: Portrait of a Lady with a Hat
Medium: Stone Lithograph (Arches Water-Marked)
Signature: Signed in pencil, bottom right
Size: 250 (penciled numbered)
Size: 30" x 22"
Condition: New, never framed, no damage or repairs

Biography:
Colette is one of New York City's artistic Living National Treasures. Her pioneering street performances in the 1970s brought the avant-garde art form into the public eye. Her beautiful installations at such location as the Fiorucci store on 59th Street in Manhattan, at The Clocktower and PS i, and in various European venues such as Berlin and Rome brought crucial attention to this vital genre of work. And they had a huge influence on Pop culture (without Colette we would not have had many aspects of Madonna, for example). Her altered photographs have been widely exhibited and published to critical acclaim. The influence of her "Living Tableaux" resonates in the works of artists as diverse as Cindy Sherman (who restricts her fantasy personas to the two-dimensionality of her photographs) and Matthew Barney (whose use of mythology, notably his satyr impersonations, takes costume play to similar levels of flamboyance). The elaborately staged performances of the Japanese artist, Mariko Mori, also seem to channel Colette in their appropriations of cultural and mythological icons. Her characters are allegorical. They invoke a highly theatrical symbolism to investigate social history and to challenge gender cliches. Her work constantly mines her own personal history and her associations with art and art history. During the past three decades Colette has enacted many recreations of legendary women, among them Delacroix's figure of liberty, Marianne; Mata Hari (in 1984 the artist turned her Berlin apartment into the boudoir of the alluring spy); and the countess Reichenbach (1986), a fictitious aristocrat from the era of the extravagant King Ludwig. While Colette is more appreciated in Europe than in our own city, she is one of our significant and most original artists.