Procession by Gustave Baumann

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.