1975 Edith Auffray French Art Exhibition Lithograph

1975 Edith Auffray French Art Exhibition Lithograph. Offset lithograph printed in France on gloss paper. matte paper. Promoting an art exhibition event of the artist's works in Paris, France. Featuring a a bold red velvet scene with a blade and hand sculptures, from an original work by the artist dated 1962. About the Artist - Edith Auffray Edith Auffray (1901–2003) was a French painter and journalist whose long life spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. Active in the Paris art scene of the postwar years, she developed a distinctive style that drew on Surrealism while remaining rooted in symbolic figuration. Rather than pursuing pure abstraction, which dominated much of the Parisian avant-garde at the time, Auffray kept the recognizable world in view and used it as a stage, arranging figures and objects to charge her compositions with atmosphere and emotional tension. Her paintings are characterized by a poetic visual language in which symbolism and illusion work together. Images that at first seem to suggest a story resist resolving into one, leaving the viewer suspended between narrative hints and dreamlike ambiguity. This careful staging, where the meaning of a scene feels just out of reach, links her to the Surrealist interest in the uncanny while giving her work a quieter, more contemplative register. Her dual career as a journalist may also have sharpened her eye for scene-setting and the implied narrative that runs through her imagery.