"Men Seldom make Passes.."

 

Minna Citron

  1896 - 1991 (biography)

1946  

color etching and engraving with gaffrauge 

14 15/16 x 9 5/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

edition of 50 

in pencil, lower margin: "Etch & engr. / ed 50 /'Men Seldom make Passes..' / For Peggy Boome with appreciation..1952 / Minna Citron / S.G.E. '46" 

Chapman, 176, illustrated page 11 

heavy, antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

19063 

SOLD

Minna Citron adds a touch of humor to this wonderfully illustrated Modernist piece. Done at Atelier 17 in 1946, it combines the hallmarks of Hayter's teachings, with gestural shapes bordered by suggestions of line, and blocks of color.

The print is a direct reference to the quip by poet/author Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses, first printed in the New York World on August 16, 1925.

In 1976 the Newark Public Library did a retrospective exhibition of Citron's prints titled "Graphics In Series 1945-1975" which featured 'Men Seldom...' in three states, including the final, like this impression.

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