André Lhote
The Port of Istanbul, 1957
Three colour lithograph
10.5 x 17.25 (with full margins)
No. 103 from the edition of 200
Signed and numbered in pencil
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Note: André LHOTE had a profound influence on Turkish modernism. In an interview in the Turkish daily Akşam, the artist Ali Sami Boyar stated in a fury: “All the young artists educated in Paris these days become followers of modern art, and André Lhote is among their prophets. Whoever returns from Europe seems to have visited his studio. Lhote, Lhote, Lhote… As if Paris never had a greater artist.” The art scene in Turkey in the 1930s would hear much more of Lhote, specifically through the “D Group” who were interested in Cubism not only as a new artistic style, but a modern visual language that could serve as the metaphor for new Turkey.