Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship) by Roderick Mead
Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship)
Roderick Mead
Title
Wreck (Wreck on Sea Shore; Wrecked Ship)
Artist
Roderick Mead
1900 - 1971 (biography)Year
1935 /36
Technique
engraving
Image Size
7 13/16 x 9 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
Proof, outside the edition of 30
Annotations
pencil dated "36"; titled in another hand
Reference
Museum of the Southwest 70; Austin/Desmond catalogue 64
Paper
antique-white M.R. VIDALON Japon nacre
State
proof
Publisher
artist, at Atelier 17, Paris
Inventory ID
16204
Price
SOLD
Description
American artist Roderick Mead was one of the few printmakers to work at Atelier 17 in Paris in the 1930s, New York in the 1940s and again in Paris in the 1950s.
"Wreck" was created at Atelier 17 in Paris in about 1936. This impression is a proof of Mead's most noted Surrealist image. A wrecked ship's rotting hull is attached by a rope to an animal's backbone, both of which are encased by spinal rock formations. For more information on the artist, please see our biography.
This impression was in the collection of fellow Atelier 17 artist, Cathan O'Toole.