Print of the Day!! Sunday, September 29, 2019; Mauricio Lasansky (1914-2012); "Anunciación"; drypoint; 1938; 2/4 - RARE!!

Print of the Day!! Sunday, September 29, 2019, is by Argentine-born, Atelier 17 student, American artist Mauricio Lasansky (1914-2012).

The first image previewing works we will be bringing to The New York Satellite Print Fair, 10/24 - 10/27/19. 

"Anunciación"; is an intaglio - a drypoint done in 1938. This impression is pencil signed, titled, and editioned "2/4" by the artist in the lower margin. The platemark measures 21-7/16 x 20-1/8" and was printed by the artist in Argentina on a sheet of thick, antique-white wove paper that measures 22-7/8 x 21". References for this image are Lasansky 41; Zigrosser 38.

This scarce abstracted drypoint by Mauricio Lasansky is available from the gallery for $6,000.00.This early, rare, large drypoint, printed from a zinc plate, was done when the artist was twenty-four and shows his familiarity with the work of the Surrealists and Picasso, and the imagery done in Polynesia, especially Bali, the "primitive" nature of which also interested the Surrealists.

This image, "Anunciacion", which translates as "announcement", depicts a woman standing in a field gesturing to a young man astride a horse, as birds rise around her from the grasses. What is she announcing? Or is he proposing? We can only speculate. In the background is a hillside village, with residents working their everyday jobs.

Lasansky created a 1/2" border, a "frame," around the composition and within the platemark. This frame is interrupted a number of times: by the tail of a cow, the load of a cart, the hill, mill, and wheelbarrow. This creates the illusion of infinity, that the landscape, and life, goes on and on, and the viewer is just allowed a peek into a moment.

The raisonne lists the edition at 10, though this impression, which has had slight restoration, indicates an edition of 4. There was not an impression available to Lasansky to measure for the raisonne. This may be the only surviving impression of this powerful composition.

To purchase this work or read a biography for Mauricio Lasansky use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/1348/Lasansky/Mauricio

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