Georges Ball

George Ball (1929, San Francisco - 2010, Paris) is a painter, engraveur, with a Stanford diploma in 1952, who settles in Paris in 1958 until his death. He becomes master engraver at Hayter Studio 17 and is considered like the most important Post-War master engraver. In 1961 he shows his art with Calder and Jasper Johns. 

Solo Shows, Paris, San Francisco, Londres, Musée Beaux-Arts Brest. Collections musées Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Musée d'Art moderne de San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation art graphique, San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, University Stanford, Portland, Portland Art Museum, Londres, Victoria and Albert Museum, Zurich, Kunstmuseum, Macédoine du Nord, Musée d'Art contemporain de Skopje, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, Musée Beaubourg Pompidou, Paris, Musée d'art moderne, Dieppe, Musée du Présidial de Saintes, Musée de Gravelines, Musée Beaux-Arts de Brest, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, Musée Beaux-Arts Dijon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Musée Denon, Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes.