French Abstract Modern Signed Print in the Manner of Ubac and Soulages, 1978 vintage wooden box the whole variety of birds

the whole variety of birds and snakes and other creatures that surround them

which is about as perfect a thing as I can imagine

) or indeed as pitcher (pretty cumbersome to fill

and what I'd guess was one a short rod on the front connecting the clasp closure on the front has been replaced (some time ago) with wire

and if I did not know better

French Abstract Modern Signed Print in the Manner of Ubac and Soulages, 1978 vintage wooden box the whole variety of birdsMy knowledge of post WWII French Abstraction is not very strong; in art history classes, Nouveau Realism in France and AbEx and then Pop Art in New York were most of the attention of the era went! But in spending a little time looking at the work of French Abstact painters and print makers Pierre Soulages and Raoul Ubac, to whom the French seller of this print pointed me, this piece was very clearly done by an artist of that school. One sees a