E. Seated: No. 5 from "The Nude Man" by Beth Van Hoesen

E. Seated: No. 5 from The Nude Man by Beth Van Hoesen

E. Seated: No. 5 from "The Nude Man"

Beth Van Hoesen

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Title

E. Seated: No. 5 from "The Nude Man"

 
Artist
Year
1965  
Technique
etching and aquatint 
Image Size
5 7/8 x 5 3/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
9/50; plus 16 various proofs 
Annotations
pencil titled "No. 5" and editioned 
Reference
Van Hoesen 269; BAT 285; Crown Point Press 96 - 5 
Paper
cream wove Shogun Heavy 
State
published 
Publisher
Kathan Brown, Crown Point Press 
Inventory ID
18213 
Price
$650.00 
Description

In selecting the project of doing a portfolio of etchings, using the nude figure of the opposite sex as a theme, Beth Van Hoesen was one of a few women artists willing to take on the challenge (much to her father's chagrin).

Van Hoesen’s subjects are not always the classic virile strong men either, but instead are of varying proportions, age and race. They are not sexualized - just matter-of-fact physiques that Richard Lorenz described as “unheroic and posed in decidedly non-classical postures.” She enlisted her friends to pose. The project was done in collaboration with her friend and printer/publisher Kathan Brown who had opened her Crown Point Press in 1962 and began publishing in 1965, the year this was done.

This image is number 5 from a series of 25 images of nude men done by Beth Van Hoesen in 1965, published by Crown Point Press, Berkeley, California, printed there by Kathan Brown 1965. The paper is folded at the left margin to create a portfolio.

The total edition was 50, 25 of which were bound and another 25 were issued as boxed portfolios. Provenance: From the collection of Los Angeles art dealer Felix Landau.

 

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