Figures Constructing a Dance by Salvatore Grippi

Figures Constructing a Dance by Salvatore Grippi

Figures Constructing a Dance

Salvatore Grippi

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Title

Figures Constructing a Dance

 
Artist
Year
1955  
Technique
lift-ground etching and engraving on cut out plates 
Image Size
9 13/16 x 13 7/16" uneven platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated; presumed quite limited 
Annotations
titled, lower left; dated, lower center 
Reference
 
Paper
sturdy cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
GRIPPI101 
Price
$1,250.00 
Description

Master printmaker Salvatore Grippi maintained a physicality in his work that transcended whichever medium he worked with. Approaching each object or figure almost as a block of stone or wood to be chiseled, his sense of gravity and strength comes through. Grippi worked at Atelier 17 in New York in the early 1950s and used many of the innovative intaglio techniques which were developed there.

In “Figures Constructing a Dance” he has gone so far as to cut the plate to accommodate the posed figures, the locus of the composition remaining the shapes of their bodies and how they communicate with one another, their sinewy dance emphasized by the bold lift-ground and the negative space surrounding them. In this multi-technique intaglio, Grippi’s place in the formulation of fine art printmaking shines.

 

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