Untitled from Venezia Ha Dettato Cosi' portfolio

 

Claire Falkenstein

  1908 - 1997 (biography)

1972  

color screenprint 

19 x 26 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

Epreuve d'Artiste (EA), proof outside published edition of 100 

editioned in pencil, lower right, "plurima" chop, lower right 

 

antique-white CM Fabriano 100/100 Cotone watermarked wove 

published 

Edizioni Plurima, Portogruaro 

21204 

$1,800.00 

Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997) studied at Atelier 17 with S.W. Hayter where she learned experimental printmaking. She is highly regarded as a painter/printmaker but is also noted for her metal sculpture and jewelry. She would often "print" both, using the sculpture as the matrix, to create a three dimensional collagraph. This Abstract Expressionist color screenprint was created in the same visual language as her three-dimensional works, using a gestural, calligraphic linear composition. The yellow background creates a dimensional element while black lines float across the surface.