Imprisoned

 

Boris Margo

  1902 - 1995 (biography)

1934  

cellocut with drypoint 

6 3/4 x 9" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

35 

titled & dated; annotated cellocut 

Gelb & Schmeckebier 17 

cream wove paper 

published 

artist 

BOMA102 

$1,000.00 

Biomorphic forms appear to be floating in mid-air or in water, trapped within a square structure. Done in black and white the image is created by scratching into the matrix with a drypoint needle and printing it relief, rather than intaglio.