Lithograph - lithographies
Olivier MESSIAEN - page 93 - Sept Haïkaï
Throughout his life, messiaen often spoke of his perception of synesthesia, the correspondence between colours and sounds. Messiaen was not the only composer to do so, as Scriabin also spoke of the idea. The musical public did not often understand how Messiaen was abble to perceive colours when he was listening to complex sounds.
In 1988-1989 Michel Archimbaud had the idea to talk with Messiaen about the idea to recopy a page of his choice, to be reproduced on half of a large sheet of hand-made paper, very high quality. The other half was blank, allowing artists to illustrate the music with original works, painted in colour.
Once the lithograph was printed, Michel Archimbaud regulary climbed up to the organ gallery between the two Sunday morning Masses, that is to say, between 10:30 and 11:00, so that Messiaen could countersign a certain number of copies.
In 1988 Mr Archimbaud printed two hundred specimens.
100 specimens were not countersigned, other 100 specimens were countersigned and numbered.
In 1991 the artist painter Aline Gagnaire (1911-1997) has illustrated two specimens.
This is NOT an edition work.
several countersigned specimens are for sale
(personaly I only have 10 countersigned specimens)
uncountersigned for sale ... 60€
countersigned specimens for sale ...200€
It exist several very nice painting portraits of Olivier Messiaen (private collection). One of them will be shown for an exhibition at Trinité Church, october to december 2008. I have the project to create a lithograph of a painting portrait. I hope it will be available for sale for those who will be interested to get a specimen.
Here is a low and bad resolution pictures...
I'm not going to give any permission to use them
private collection under copyright
Available soon...
An amazing lithograph of a portrait of Messiaen, large format
This litograph will be for sale for 30 €
Here, the picture is intensionaly low and bad resolution to print from the website...!
None autorisation will be given to use this portrait (book, CD, etc..)
private collection - under copyright