Self-Portrait XLVIII by Roy W. Ragle
Self-Portrait XLVIII
Roy W. Ragle
Title
Self-Portrait XLVIII
Artist
Roy W. Ragle
1944 - 2014 (biography)Year
1980
Technique
woodcut
Image Size
32 x 24" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
artist's proof
Annotations
pencil titled lower center
Reference
Paper
very thin antique-white laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
RORA111
Price
$1,000.00
Description
Roy Ragle had a successful career exhibiting his astonishingly detailed and very large woodcut portraits. His work was often mistakenly labelled as lithographs or etchings in exhibitions because no one believed that his fluid, spidery line work could come from the rigid woodcut form. His mastery of craft was matched by the psychological perception of his subjects, which more often than not included himself, as he described the harrowing affects of Crohn's disease on his physiognomy.