Hymne a la Joie by Shoichi Hasegawa
Hymne a la Joie
Shoichi Hasegawa
Title
Hymne a la Joie
Artist
Shoichi Hasegawa
1929 - PRESENT (biography)Year
c. 2000
Technique
color mixed technique intaglio
Image Size
19 3/16 x 23 3/8" platemark
Signature
lower right, pencil
Edition Size
34 of 110
Annotations
titled in English and Japanese
Reference
not in Hasegawa raisonné (later)
Paper
BFK Rives wove
State
published
Publisher
L'Oeuvre Grave, Paris
Inventory ID
19502
Price
SOLD
Description
Japanese born and educated Shoichi Hasegawa became interested in the lyrical abstract works of American artists Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Morris Graves. He left Japan in 1961 and traveled to Paris where he worked with experimental printmaking techniques with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17.
This large color intaglio explores the intaglio processes developed at Atelier 17, using the plate to achieve an intimate, calligraphic composition in which the uninked white line dances on the surface of the color.