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Despair I by Gabor Peterdi

Despair I by Gabor Peterdi

Despair I

Gabor Peterdi

Title

Despair I

 
Artist

Gabor Peterdi

  1915 - 2001 (biography)
Year
1938  
Technique
etching, softground and engraving on copper plate 
Image Size
10 1/2 x 7 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
17 of 30  
Annotations
pencil titled, editioned and dated "'38" 
Reference
Peterdi 11 
Paper
heavy ivory textured wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
18884 
Price
SOLD
Description

Peterdi's eleventh etching/engraving, done in 1938 at Atelier 17 in Paris. Peterdi had left Hungary for Paris in 1930 at age 15 on a Prix de Rome. In 1933 he started working with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17.

Peterdi commented: "My experience with the graphic arts started with engraving. I fell in love with it and I engraved for several years before I made my first etching. This self-imposed limitation had no other reason than the fascination to explore thoroughly this pure and powerful technique. When I started to work with the various methods of etching, I became aware of the immense range of this medium and plunged into a period of feverish experimentation." (Gabor Peterdi, "Printmaking." Macmillan Company, NY, 1959).

This image conveys the fear and horror that people were experiencing in 1938 Europe. A monster was lurking and desparation was found everywhere.

This impression is from the collection of Edmund P. Pillsbury, former director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.