We recently hung our newest print: this 1972 silkscreen by Jimmy Ernst from the Paris Review print series. Ernst  (1920 – 1984) was a German-American abstract surrealist painter. The son of pioneering surrealist Max Ernst, Jimmy established his own career in art alongside other 20th century abstract contemporaries including Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko.

We enjoyed Ernst’s abstraction of the Paris Metro system in this handmade print, which ironically seems to be one of the more representational pieces he created in his career. The treatment of the map of metro lines and their stops creates a graphic abstract composition of its own that takes the viewer a moment to realize what they are seeing.

We keep our eyes on the Paris Review print series from time to time, as it is an interesting resource for relatively accessible prints from well-known artists. They do tend to sell out quickly, especially the works from the most well known artists such as Andy Warhol and  Roy Lichtenstein. And evidently, we got one of the last of these prints as it too is now listed as sold out!