Procession by Gustave Baumann
Procession
Gustave Baumann
Title
Procession
Artist
Year
1930 / printed 1956
Technique
color woodcut with aluminum leaf
Image Size
13 x 12 7/8" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
III 121-125
Annotations
pencil titled in lower left
Reference
Baumann 101; Chamberlain 136
Paper
cream zanders laid with the Hand-in-Heart watermark
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
CLMI114
Price
SOLD
Description
Procession is also known as Processional and White Trees and was the third print for which Baumann used metal leaf as a “color.” The tempera study in the New Mexico Museum of Art has a silver sky. Young girls in white dresses readied for their first communion are line up against an adobe wall and the white blossoms of the tree echo the delicacy of the girl’s veils. Procession is a signature work by Baumann and this impression is remarkable for the flawless, leafed sky.