Original lithograph
Published by Maeght for Derriere le Miroir, Paris 1964
Printed by Mourlot
Raoul Ubac (31 August 1910 – 22 March 1985) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.
He had various and irregular artistic training and travelled in Europe between 1928 and 1934. He worked mostly on photography between 1934 and 1942, embraced Surrealism in Paris and took photos for "Minotaure", a surrealist oriented magazine founded in 1933.
Ubac's mother's family ran a tannery and his father was a magistrate. In his early years he travelled through some parts of Europe on foot, first coming to Paris in 1928. He was already enrolled at the Sorbonne for a degree in literary studies when he decided to switch to the Art Academy of Montparnasse. It was there that he moved in the company of the Surrealists.
