Doma by Mauricio Lasansky

Doma by Mauricio Lasansky

Doma

Mauricio Lasansky

Title

Doma

 
Artist

Mauricio Lasansky

  1914 - 2012 (biography)
Year
1944  
Technique
engraving printed in black ink 
Image Size
19 13/16 x 13 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
10/25; from the first printing before the artist increased the edition size to 50 in 1975 
Annotations
titled in lower left 
Reference
Thein/Lasansky 57; Zigrosser 57 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
18623 
Price
SOLD
Description

This rare engraving is one of Mauricio Lasanksy's signature early works, done in 1944 "Doma" while Lasansky was at Atelier 17 in New York, arriving there from Argentina in 1943. This was the artist's second print done at the Atelier. An impression was included in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art "Hayter and Studio 17" in 1944.

This impression is from the first edition of 35, Lasansky printed a second edition of 50 in 1974.

While in Argentina the young artist was influenced by Picasso and the surrealists, as evidenced in this powerful image that pays homage to Picasso's "Guernica".

“Doma” means the subduing of passions and the wild horse and human are interlocked in a Surrealist, mythic struggle for dominance.