Man and Woman

 

Peter Krasnow

  1886 - 1979 (biography)

1928  

linocut 

10 x 4 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated, presumed small 

titled in pencil, lower left 

 

cream vellum 

 

artist 

15422 

$800.00 

An early, Expressionist linocut done a few years after Krasnow moved to Southern California from New York. Primarily a painter and sculptor, Krasnow's experiments with printmaking were brief, lasting only about two years, making them relatively rare. Yet in that time he helped to expand the printmaking sphere of California, with a style that reflected the burgeoning age of Los Angeles Modernism. In "Man and Woman" two stylized figures pose in front of a hilly Southern California landscape, the entire composition vibrating with texture and the rounded geometric shapes that heralded his movement toward the non-representational.