Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 11.181 x 14.173 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. From the folio, Hans Hartung: Peintres d'aujourd'hui, 1962. Published by Fernand Hazan, Paris; printed by l'Imprimerie Lecot, Paris, Hans Hartung. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), The illustrations of this album, completed in December 1962, were made by Clichés Union, and drawn by l'Imprimerie Lecot. The text has been composed and drawn by l'Imprimerie Darantiere, and the binding made by F.I.A.P. according to the models of Marcel Jacno. HANS HARTUNG (1904-1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur. Hartung's freewheeling abstract paintings set influential precedents for many younger American painters of the 1960s, making him an important forerunner of American Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s. He was featured in the 1963 film documentary School of Paris: (5 Artists at Work) by American filmmaker Warren Forma.