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Colonna recisa trasversalmente I (Transversely Severed Column I) by Arnaldo Pomodoro

Colonna recisa trasversalmente I (Transversely Severed Column I) by Arnaldo Pomodoro

Colonna recisa trasversalmente I (Transversely Severed Column I)

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Title

Colonna recisa trasversalmente I (Transversely Severed Column I)

 
Artist

Arnaldo Pomodoro

  1926 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1970  
Technique
4-color lithograph in blue (with embossing and silver) 
Image Size
30 1/4 x 22 3/8" image and paper 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
C.P.A.P. I (Collector's Press Artists Proof), outside the edition of 40 in blue. First edition of 
Annotations
pencil dated, lower right; "C.P.A.P. I" lower left. On verso, in pencil: "228 State II" and "A9/10073" and in ink "CPAP". 
Reference
Pomodoro GR24 Collectors Press 228 - yellow Marlborough Graphic, NY, London, Rome: GR/18/a; GR/18/b 
Paper
antique-white wove arches 
State
II; color blue, black, silver, white 
Publisher
Collectors Press, San Francisco; chop, lower center 
Inventory ID
5588 
Price
SOLD
Description

Italian sculptor and printmaker Arnaldo Pomodoro returned to Northern California between 1968 and 1970 to install a sculpture titled "Colonna Inter a recisa" (Severed Column) at the University of California in Berkeley. He also returned to work with Collectors Press on a series of color lithographs that explored the subject of slashing a column at an angle in two dimensions.

Pomodoro titled the prints of the series "Colonna recisa trasversalmente" (Transversely Severed Column). They were printed in 2 editions by Editions Press Master Printer Charles Ringness in San Francisco. There were 35 impressions printed in yellow-gold, published by Collector's Press and an edition of 40, published by Marlborough Graphics in New York.

This image has a delicate embossed line, over-printed with a white ink over blue and black and a bright silver foil. The lines appear to keep the column suspended in air.