Monaco 1952
George Minne
1952 Monaco Grand Prix
Original lithograph print
68 x 100 cm
Unframed

This original lithograph print was produced by George Minne for the 1952 Monaco Grand Prix.

George Minne (1866 – 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealised depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" sculpture series.

A contemporary of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Minne's work shows many similarities in both form and subject matter to the Viennese Secessionists, the fathers of Art Nouveau.

Minne studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, then in the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels until 1889. In 1891 he was elected a member of the arts group Les XX.

He established his own bronze foundry in 1910–14, in Ghent. During World War I he fled to Wales, but returned after the war, and taught drawing.

He had made his first visit to Paris in 1886 where he met the writers Maeterlinck and Le Roy, who introduced him to the French Symbolists.

Minne returned to Paris in 1890 and asked Auguste Rodin for permission to work in his studio, Rodin told him, "I have nothing to teach you."

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