Print, 488 x 350 mm.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. S0491_12).
At the beginning of the 1950's, Cox starts experimenting with making multicolored prints on his own litho-press. Le fou rire du nouveau riche is one such work, and the M HKA collection contains several printer's proofs of this lithograph. Feeling limited in his printing technique and not wholly satisfied with the results, in 1952 Cox decides to call on the celebrated Parisian printing atelier of Mourlot. Here he could realize his color litho's in ideal conditions, and profit from this workshop's accumulated experience - as did fellow artists like Bernard Villon, Marc Chagall and Alberto Giacometti.
This collaboration resulted in some wonderful works such as Verhuizing ’s avonds (1952), Vreugdetakken (1952) and the portrait of his girlfriend Yvonne: Verrassing [Sursprise] from 1952.
In 1953 Cox exhibits a selection of his lithographic work in Amsterdam. This exhibition later also traveled to Indonesia, and a companion catalogue was published with texts by J.H.W. Veenstra.
Add to your list> Jan Cox.
> Exhibition: INBOX: Jan Cox – Episode 1: How can you keep the remembrance of an artist current? Koen van den Broek's choice. M HKA, Antwerp, 06 April 2014 - 04 May 2014.
> Exhibition: INBOX: Jan Cox – Aflevering 3: Hoe de herinnering van een kunstenaar hedendaags houden? De keuze van Philippe Pirotte. M HKA, Antwerpen, 03 June 2014 - 29 June 2014.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2014 [Acquisitions 2014].
>Jan Cox, Le fou rire du nouveau riche, 1950.Print, lithograph on paper, 488 x 350 mm.
>Jan Cox, Le fou rire du nouveau riche, 1950.Print, lithograph on paper, 488 x 350 mm.