Oscar LAZAR

Collection assembled by the artist of 82 lithographs created between 1939 and 1940 after his drawings. All are portraits of the teaching staff of the University of Geneva, in black or lithographic crayon, and bear as caption the name of the model and the author's signature, as well as a date. We may distinguish the portrait of Jean Piaget, which was widely used as an image of the psychologist. The paper usually employed is that used for drawing, and the qualities of the lithography suggest that these are original drawings; it is thought that the author possessed his own press and made his lithographs.
Contemporary full marbled citron sheep binding. Smooth spine, silver title. On the cov