Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship) by Roderick Mead

Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship) by Roderick Mead

Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship)

Roderick Mead

Title

Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship)

 
Artist

Roderick Mead

  1900 - 1971 (biography)
Year
1935 /36 
Technique
engraving 
Image Size
7 13/16 x 9 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
Proof, outside the edition of 30 
Annotations
pencil dated "36"; titled in another hand 
Reference
Museum of the Southwest 70; Austin/Desmond catalogue 64 
Paper
antique-white M.R. VIDALON Japon nacre 
State
proof 
Publisher
artist, at Atelier 17, Paris 
Inventory ID
16204 
Price
SOLD
Description

American artist Roderick Mead was one of the few printmakers to work at Atelier 17 in Paris in the 1930s, New York in the 1940s and again in Paris in the 1950s.

"Wreck" was created at Atelier 17 in Paris in about 1936. This impression is a proof of Mead's most noted Surrealist image. A wrecked ship's rotting hull is attached by a rope to an animal's backbone, both of which are encased by spinal rock formations. For more information on the artist, please see our biography.

This impression was in the collection of fellow Atelier 17 artist, Cathan O'Toole.