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It is not often that one can see a complete overview of an art movement, but this is the case for the post-war French figurative school known as La Jeune Peinture , whose members practically all contributed to the series of print portfolios Sujet. I have the first five issues of Sujet, published between 1950 and 1953, and I believe that that is the complete set. Sujet was published by the artist Philippe Cara Costea (1925-2006), who was the organizing force behind the screenprinting collective that produced it. According to a website devoted to Cara Costea , the group was formed in 1949. The first issue is undated, but can be confidently dated to 1950 as several of the artists dated their prints '50, and the second issue came out in January 1951. Issues 3 and 4 also appeared in 1951, but the last issue was not published until June 1953. Sujet 1: Io, vierge � cornes de vache Paul A�zpiri (1919- ) Antoni Clav� (1913-2005) Ga�tan de Rosnay (1912-1992) Andr� Minaux (1923-1986) Jean Sou

I�ve mentioned the etcher, lithographer and painter �douard Joseph Goerg in several previous posts, but never really focussed on his work. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1893, to French parents (his father was a champagne merchant, with whose bourgeois ethos �douard remained deeply at odds), Goerg was a very powerful artist, whose distorted figures and phantasmagorical compositions express a deep-seated sense of dread and apprehension. Goerg�s anguished soul is reflected in the texts he chose to illustrate, which include Dante�s L�Enfer (1950, etchings), Villiers de l�Isle Adam�s Nouveau contes cruels (1946, colour lithographs), and the Apocalypse (1945, black and white lithographs). �douard Goerg, lithograph for Baudelaire, 1947-52 Goerg�s majestic two-volume edition of Baudelaire�s poems, Les Fleurs du Mal (1948) and Tableaux Parisiens (1952) is often cited as his major work. It�s certainly a monumental achievement, containing 269 monochrome lithographs, all designed to surround an