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Artist: Hervé Di Rosa
Title: (untitled)
Technique: Original lithograph
Signature: Unsigned
Size: 35x27cm
Edition:
– 110 signed and numbered copies
– 55 artist’s proofs (signed)
– 250 unsigned, unnumbered copies
Paper: Rivoli paper
Publisher: Published by Joël Knafo, November 15, 2014
Biography:
Hervé Di Rosa (born 1959 in Sète, France) is a major figure in contemporary French art and a founding member of the Figuration Libre movement, which emerged in the early 1980s alongside artists such as Robert Combas, François Boisrond, and Rémi Blanchard. A graduate of the Marseille School of Fine Arts, Di Rosa quickly developed a vibrant, narrative, and eclectic visual style influenced by comic books, popular culture, outsider art, and urban graphics.
He champions an unapologetically open view of art, far from academic conventions, drawing inspiration from African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American visual languages. His work is both critical and joyful, blending high and low culture. In 2000, he founded the MIAM (International Museum of Modest Arts) in his hometown of Sète, dedicated to unconventional and often overlooked artistic expressions.
Di Rosa works across various media—including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and tapestry—and frequently collaborates with artisans around the world. For over 40 years, he has pursued a prolific and iconoclastic artistic practice that embraces cultural hybridity and global creativity.
