Bee's End (from the portfolio 'Twelve Intimate Fantasies')

 

Nathan Oliveira

  1928 - 2010 (biography)

1964  

lithograph 

8 3/8 x 15" image 

pencil, lower right 

30 of 60  

titled, editioned and dated in pencil in lower margin 

Garver 91 

cream wove Rives 

published 

Kanthos Press, Los Angeles / New York 

20815 

$950.00 

This early abstracted, expressionist lithograph by Nathan Oliveira was the fifth of twelve images included in the suite "Twelve Intimate Fantasies / A Suite of Lithographs by Nathan Oliveira." It was published and printed in Los Angeles by Kanthos Press. Peter Selz notes in "Nathan Oliveira": "These prints, rapidly produced in a period of two weeks, are not as complete as they might have been. Still, they are fascinating, rather abstract pieces, some playful and others veering toward surrealist dream imagery. Several are dedicated to artists he admired, including Duccio, Michelangelo, Giocametti and Voulkos....The graphics he produced, especially in their melding of meaning and medium, signify Oliveira's adherence to tradition."