La Danse

 

Vevean Oviette

  1902 - 1986 (biography)

1958  

color woodcut/relief print 

23 1/4 x 17" image 

pencil, lower right 

6 of 7  

pencil titled and editioned 

NYPL 94425 - The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs NYPL 1 

thin white Japanese hosho 

published 

artist 

21077 

SOLD

There is another impression of "La Danse" at The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs New York Public Library (#1). It is listed as a color woodcut but may well be a paper relief, like the work of Edmond Casarella.

The image is done in 4 colors and is a gestural, Abstract Expressionist work. Oviette studied experimental printmaking in New York with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in the early 1940s where her fellow artists included many of the upcoming Abstract Expressionist artists including Jackson Pollock, deKooning, Rothko, Motherwell and Louise Nevelson, Worden Day, Anne Ryan and Sue Fuller to name a few.