Abstraction by Lily Ascher Neogy

Abstraction by Lily Ascher Neogy

Abstraction

Lily Ascher Neogy

Title

Abstraction

 
Artist
Year
1949  
Technique
engraving 
Image Size
3 1/4 x 5 15/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
proof, from an unstated edition 
Annotations
pencil dated "April 1949" lower left 
Reference
 
Paper
cream wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
23461 
Price
SOLD
Description

A study in automatic line, Lily Ascher Neogy used her time at Atelier 17 in New York to hone the skills she had been developing at the Cooper Union under Leo Katz. Ascher Neogy was also a student of dance, and she took to the new, experimental printmaking style as a form of expression that had similar roots as Modern dance, with an emphasis on freedom of movement and expression. In this untitled abstract composition, her love of engraving’s physicality is clear, and it emerges an emblematic image from a pioneering era in printmaking.