Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 10 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, Éditeur, Paris, Alain A.C. Mazo, Éditeur, Paris, Leon Amiel, Éditeur, New-York; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, April 5, 1972. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing completed in Paris on April 5, 1972, this folio was printed on vélin d'Arches in DCCC numbered examples. Examples have also been printed for the artists, friends and collaborators of this project. The original lithographs were printed by Mourlot and the typography is by Fequet and Baudier. Alain A.C. Mazo, Paris, and Leon Amiel, New York, publishers. PAUL GUIRAMAND (1926-2007) painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in Saint-Quentin in northern France. His parents moved to the modest 19th arrondissement of Paris in 1933. In 1943, Guiramand entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, just across the Seine from the Louvre, the museum that became the primary source of his artistic education. In 1951, His artistic production is much influenced by Picasso, Matisse and Bonnard. He uses bright colours and strong brushstrokes. are exhibited at the Musée d'Art Modern de Ville de Paris, the National Library in France, the Besançon Fine Arts Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Otani Museum in Japan, the Tainan.