The Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut was a printer specializing in fine

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...

in Paris. In the 1930s the Atelier produced prints for

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

and

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

. It was founded by Roger Lacourière (1892–1966) in 1929. The establishment was taken over by Jacques Frélaut when Lacourière retired in 1957. In 1979 the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris held the 50th anniversary retrospective "L'Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut ou 50 ans de gravures et d'impressions en taille-douce 1929-1979". Among the British artists printed by the studio is Sylvia Finzi, whose artist's book with the poet Jeremy Adler intitled "Notes from the Correspondence" was published in 1983. The Atelier closed in 2008.

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