Phénomène (Phenomenon)

 

Joseph Hecht

  1891 - 1951 (biography)

1928  

engraving 

7 13/16 x 11 9/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

undetermined; proofs only from 14 states 

Etat 1 = 1, in lower left 

Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Plumart 166, p. 78, illustrated 

ivory Montval laid paper made for the artist with his coat-of-arms watermark by Raphael, son of Gaspard Maillol at the Viladon-le-Bas workshop 

i/xiv 

 

23590 

$1,200.00 

This is the first print from the first state. Hecht worked the plate through 14 states, only state impressions, this and states 2, 3 (four impressions), 4, 8, 12, 13, and 14. Only a few proofs are known to exist. Hecht apparently gave up on the image or damaged the plate in some way. Later states add figures to the background, fills in feathers for the birds, adds a child to the front left line of figures, etc.