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DEJA VU by Arthur Secunda
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DEJA VU by Arthur Secunda (1927 – 2022) is a serigraph with an image size of 22″ X 24″ plus full margins. The edition is 150 and it was published in 1984. It is pencil signed and numbered by the artist.
The beauty and quality of this print cannot be better portrayed than the fact it was used as the cover of the newly released 438 page Catalog Raisonné which is a hard cover book showing all the graphic works of Arthur Secunda’s lifetime.
Deja Vu is a beautifully executed serigraph of extraordinarily high quality. The color blends going both horizontally and vertically are very difficult to create at this quality level and contribute substantially to the beauty of this print.
This is a hard piece to find as I own most of the remaining pieces from the edition.
Note picture of Arthur Secunda painting in his Paris studio in 1999. Click on any picture to enlarge it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arthur Secunda (aka Arturo Secunda outside the United States) was born in New Jersey in 1927. His career in art has been marked by international recognition in many fields – painter, sculptor, teacher, critic and printmaker. In 1947, after a year in the U.S. Air Force as a staff artist, he attended New York University and the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Reginald Marsh and Julian Levi. He later continued his education in Paris and Rome where he studied sculpture with Ossip Zadkine and painting with Andre L’hote. Secunda spent the following year in Mexico working at the Esmeralda Escuela de Pintura y Escultura, where he learned the art of woodcarving and woodcut printing.
Throughout his dynamic career Secunda has cultivated his art connoisseurship via many interesting jobs which have included museum curator of education at the Santa Barbara Art Museum, university instructor and lecturer at UCLA, the Pasadena Art Museum, Otis Art Institute and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. In addition he produced a weekly TV program entitled “Arts of All Times,” and was the founding editor of Artforum magazine in Los Angeles in 1963.
Secunda’s first one man show was at the Galerie Lucien Gout in Montpellier in 1950. Since that time, he has exhibited widely all over the United States, Europe and Japan in over 150 galleries, museums and universities, as well as major art fairs in New York, Paris, Basel and Cologne.
His art works hang in the permanent collections of important institutions worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.; the Chicago Art Institute; the Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts and the Detroit Art Institute in the U.S. In addition to the Tel Aviv Museum, his art has been acquired by European museums in Aries, Geneva, Stockholm, Choler, Ostend, Brussels, Zurich, and elsewhere.
Secunda is particularly noted for his brilliant collages and striking graphics. J.M. Rouquette, Director of the Arles Museum Reattu has said, “Secunda’s collages make use of a very seductive, original and somewhat mysterious technique in which the actual tearing of paper coincides with a personal philosophy of color.” His graphics have been acclaimed for their lush color and technical inventiveness and his innovations in printmaking have inspired two grants from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. For many years, Over the years, Secunda has maintained studios in New York, Paris, and Beverly Hills.
