David Lynch (1946–2025) was an American filmmaker, painter and printmaker who trained as a painter before turning to cinema. Known worldwide for films such as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the series “Twin Peaks”, he had a major exhibition, “The Air is on Fire”, at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2007. He made dark, organic paintings and drawings that often incorporate words, and a large body of lithographs at the Idem studio in Paris.
David Lynch (1946–2025) was an American filmmaker, painter and printmaker, born in Missoula, Montana, and died in Los Angeles. Before turning to cinema he trained as a painter, studying at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he made his first experiments with film. He became internationally known for films including “Eraserhead” (1977), “The Elephant Man” (1980), “Blue Velvet” (1986), “Wild at Heart” (1990) and “Mulholland Drive” (2001), and for the television series “Twin Peaks”. “Wild at Heart” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and he later received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice and an Honorary Academy Award. Throughout his life Lynch considered himself a visual artist as much as a director, producing dark, organic paintings, drawings and photographs that often incorporate words. In 2007 the Fondation Cartier in Paris presented his large exhibition “The Air is on Fire”, and through its director Hervé Chandès he was introduced to the historic Idem lithography studio in Paris. There, working with Patrice Forest, he produced a large body of lithographs, describing the studio’s atmosphere as especially conducive to creating. The lithograph “New Head” (2017), printed on Japan paper in an edition of 30 and published by Item éditions, Paris, is offered by TUMO Gallery as impression 16/30.
