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Mats Gustafson. Mats Gustafson is a Swedish artist and fashion illustrator. In his watercolors and paper cut outs, his hallmark style is the simple use of silhouette shapes and muted palettes. His subtle, elegant works can be seen in advertisements and articles for Tiffany & Co., Vogue, and The New Yorker, though most popularly for Dior.
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Mats Gustafson (Swedish, b. 1951) is an artist and illustrator working in watercolor and pastel media. Gustafson’s fashion and portrait illustrations have been included in French and Italian Vogue, The New Yorker, and Visionaire, and he has created advertising art for Hermes, Tiffany & Co., Yohji Yamamoto, and Comme des Garcons.
Swedish, b. 1951. Mats Gustafson is a revered modern illustrator most famous for his subtle fashion illustrations. Gustafson became an illustrator in the late 1970s when watercolor as a conceptual form was rarely utilized and photography outdid editorial …. Discover and purchase Mats Gustafson’s artworks, available for sale.
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Emerging in the late 1970s at a time when fashion illustration had been eclipsed by photography, Mats Gustafson’s independent and applied arts practice nearly single-handedly reinvented the medium. Renowned for his elegant and minimalist aesthetic, Gustafson’s watercolor and cut-out paperworks demonstrate how pared-down forms can be profoundly expressive.
Mats Gustafson was born in Sweden in 1951. He studied costume and stage design at the Scandinavian Drama Institute in Stockholm and in 1978 had his first fashion illustrations published in British Vogue. This led to contributions in American Vogue and Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. In 1980 he moved to New York. In addition to making ...
Mats Gustafson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 28 USD to 5,159 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,159 USD for Svan, sold at Bukowskis, Stockholm in 2011. Mats Gustafson has been featured in articles for Culture24 ...
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In 2017, Rizzoli published Dior by Mats Gustafson, featuring his interpretations of 25 collections as well as historic designs from the brand’s archive. His other monographs include Swan (2010), Watercolors (2013) and Nude (2018). Stripes, Vogue Italia, 1988. View Print Details.
