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Herve Telemaque Art

French, Haitian, 1937-2022
Hervé Télémaque was a Haitian-born French artist (1937–2022) whose influential career spanned painting, collage, drawing, assemblage, and mixed media, and who lived and worked primarily in Paris from the early 1960s onward. Born in Port-au-Prince, he moved to New York in the late 1950s, studied at the Art Students League, and absorbed the languages of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art before relocating to France, where he played a central role in the Narrative Figuration movement alongside peers such as Bernard Rancillac and Öyvind Fahlström. Télémaque consistently developed a personal visual vocabulary that juxtaposed everyday objects, cultural symbols, and visual metaphors to explore social experience, identity, and power structures, often addressing themes of racism, colonialism, consumer culture, and personal history. His work has been shown in major retrospectives, including exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and Serpentine Galleries, and is held in prestigious collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), reflecting his important contribution to late 20th-century modern and contemporary art. Hervé Télémaque, Haitian-French artist, Narrative Figuration, contemporary painting, mixed media, collage, assemblage, Pop Art influences, surrealism, visual vocabulary, social critique, racism in art, colonialism themes, MoMA collection.
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Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, French Modern Art, ~55% OFF MUST GO)
Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, French Modern Art, ~55% OFF MUST GO)

Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, French Modern Art, ~55% OFF MUST GO)

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Kansas City, MO

Herve Telemaque Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, French Modern Art) from "Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona at Redfern Gallery, London" Original Color Lithograph Year: 1979 Edi...

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1970s Modern Herve Telemaque Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1979 and published in Barcelona by La Poligrafa in an edition of 1000. Size: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (255 x 188 mm). Not signed.

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1970s Herve Telemaque Art

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Lithograph

Roland Garros 1998

Roland Garros 1998

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Winterswijk, NL

Color offset lithograph - created on the occasion of the tennis tournament 1998 monogrammed in print In great condition

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1990s Herve Telemaque Art

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Color, Lithograph

Rencontres (Narrative Figuration, Pop Art Influences, Surrealism, ~46% OFF)
Rencontres (Narrative Figuration, Pop Art Influences, Surrealism, ~46% OFF)

Rencontres (Narrative Figuration, Pop Art Influences, Surrealism, ~46% OFF)

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Kansas City, MO

Hervé Télémaque Rencontres 1964 Color Lithograph Size: 12.68 × 19.21 inches (32.2 x 48.8 cm) Edition: 1,500 Publisher: Galerie Krugier & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland From "Suite No. ...

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1960s Modern Herve Telemaque Art

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Herve Telemaque, Untitled, from Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979
Herve Telemaque, Untitled, from Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979

Herve Telemaque, Untitled, from Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Herve Telemaque (1937–2022), titled Sin titulo (Untitled), from the album Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona - Redfern Gallery, London, originates from the 1...

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1970s Contemporary Herve Telemaque Art

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Herve Telemaque, "La pêche miraculeuse", 2005, Engraving, 39.4x31.9 in

Herve Telemaque, "La pêche miraculeuse", 2005, Engraving, 39.4x31.9 in

By Herve Telemaque

Located in Miami, FL

Herve Telemaque (France, 1937-2022) 'La pêche miraculeuse', 2005 silkscreen on canvas 39.4 x 31.9 in. (100 x 81 cm.) Edition of 99 Unframed ID: TEL1361-013-106

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Early 2000s Expressionist Herve Telemaque Art

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Paper, Engraving, Screen

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