Up for sale from a recent estate of a well known collector here in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1952 US New York limited edition A.P. (artist proof) woodblock print that is titled "Mantegna at Eremtiani" depicting the back view of the bust of the famous artist Andrea Mantegna and was created by the well known artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). The condition is described above for more information please check the photos.
Measurements:
Print 14.25 inches x 23.25 inches
Sheet 22 inches x 31 inches
More about the artist:
A highly respected draftsman, printmaker, teacher, and sculptor, Leonard Baskin had the ability to depict in an abstract style man and his relation to the world. Whether working with bronze or wood or two-dimensional mediums, his focus remained on large heroic, but flawed human beings who at times recall photographic images of concentration-camp victims or birds with human bodies that suggest mythological forms.
Born in 1922 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Baskin studied sculpture with Maurice Glickman at the Educational Alliance, New York City, from 1937 to 1943. He had many influences at that time including Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens, and Alexander Archipenko.
In 1949, he began to make wood engravings, and his attitude toward the nature of man grew more generalized, but no less moralistic or didactic. In style these works are closest to German Die Brucke prints. At this time he studied abroad at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence. During this period, he got extensive familiarization with the Great European Collections, many which helped release in him the sculptural images he has since used.
For many years, he was a professor of sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Condition:
The print is in good pre-owned condition, on very fine thin translucent paper, there is a flaw in the paper that looks like a tear but it is not torn (it is not backed and glued), there is light brown spotting in places, and some minor tearing to the edges of the paper, the print can be cleaned and should be mounted on paper before framing it
