Untitled by Garo Zareh Antreasian
Untitled
Garo Zareh Antreasian
Title
Untitled
Artist
Year
1970
Technique
color lithograph
Image Size
23 x 22 7/8" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
artist's proof
Annotations
titled, editioned and dated in pencil
Reference
Krause/Antreasian #177; Collector' Press work #235.
Paper
white German etching paper
State
published
Publisher
Collector's Press (chop, lower left margin)
Inventory ID
5581
Price
SOLD
Description
Garo Antreasian's exploration of the printmaking medium began in Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in the late 1940s, and he steadily overcame his original pursuit of painting. By the 1970s, Antreasian's unparalleled command of the lithographic process was illustrated by his tonal, refined geometric compositions, as seen here in this untitled piece, done at Collector's Press in San Francisco in 1970, printed with the assistance of Maurice Sanchez. Antreasian's work as an artist and a teacher furthered the goal of his fine art printmaker forerunners: to advance the evolution of a medium once banned to the confines of commercial reproduction, and to help it thrive. Antresian and Clinton Adams helped June Wayne with the formation of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1960. For more information on the artist, please see our biography above.