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, several specimens were countersigned and numbered.

In 1991 the artist painter Aline Gagnaire (1911-1997) has illustrated two specimens.

intensionaly bad resolution

(so, you cannot use it from internet)

     uncountersigned for sale  ... 60€

     countersigned specimens for sale   ...200€

It exist several very fantastic painting portraits of Olivier Messiaen (private collection). One of them have been shown for the exhibition at Trinité Church, october to december 2008.  

Here is a low and bad resolution pictures... so, you cannot use it  :-) 

I'm not going to give any permission to use them

private collection under copyright

Available...

An amazing lithograph of a portrait of Messiaen, large format

This litograph is for sale at Librairie la cornaline, 64 rue saint lazare, Paris 75009

Here, the picture is intensionaly low and bad resolution

Also for this one...None autorisation will be given to use this portrait (book, CD, etc..)

private collection - under copyright

Private collection from O.Messiaen

italian anonymous middle age drawing (approx 1425)