Tyger Tyger by Martin Barooshian
Tyger Tyger
Martin Barooshian
Title
Tyger Tyger
Artist
Martin Barooshian
1929 - 2022 (biography)Year
1955
Technique
color woodcut
Image Size
12 1/8 x 18" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
unnumbered, from an edition of 18
Annotations
pencil titled
Reference
Russo 99
Paper
Japanese Hosho
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
MAB102
Price
$2,000.00
Description
This colorful and whimsical color woodcut by Martin Barooshian, done in 1959, shows the influence of the Surrealists and his personal interest in the work of Arshile Gorky and William Blake. In 1956, Barooshian was in Paris, where he studied printmaking at Atelier 17 with S.W. Hayter.
"Tyger, Tyger" was a subject Barooshian returned to over and over, in different media. He explored his responses to William Blake's 1794 poem of the same title, the first verse of which reads:
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?