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Sagitta by Andrew Balkin
Sagitta
Andrew Balkin
Title
Sagitta
Artist
Andrew Balkin
1947 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1993
Technique
Etching with soft-ground, hard-ground, lift-ground and aquatint
Image Size
17 7/8 x 23 3/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
44/80, the first 40 in the portfolio AGB 1+ 10
Annotations
titled, editioned and dated in pencil
Reference
AGB 1+ 10 #1
Paper
ivory Rives BFK
State
published
Publisher
Andrew Balkin Publications, AGB Graphics Workshop
Inventory ID
14238
Price
$800.00
Description
In geometry, the sagitta of a circular arc is the distance from the center of the arc to the center of its base. It is the name of the constellation Sagitta, named by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
"Sagitta" was one of ten images included in the Andrew Balkin Editions' first major portfolio of printmakers, AGB1+10, published in 1993. It also included the artists Barbara Rossi, Roger Brown, Richard Hull, Patricia Fennell, Gladys Nilsson, Martin Levine, Mary Bero, Frances Myers, David Becker, and Dennis Nechtval.
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