Pieta

 

Mauricio Lasansky

  1914 - 2012 (biography)

1948  

color engraving and etching with soft ground, electric stippler & scraping and burnishing 

19 1/4 x 28" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

23 of 35  

titled, lower left; dated (48) after signature 

Thein/Lasansky 83, Zigrosser 79; U of I 1958, fig. 19 

heavy ivory wove 

published 

 

18629 

SOLD

printed in color from 9 plates Mauricio Lasansky's notoriety as a printmaker in his own right had its beginnings at Atelier 17 in New York. He wasn't hesitant to use multiple plates, and he often combined various tools in many of his compositions to achieve the texture and depth he was searching for. For more information on the artist, please see our biography, above.