Untitled

© Lee Bontecou

Untitled

Currently not on view

Untitled,

1967

Lee Bontecou, 1931–2022; born Providence, RI; died Florida; active Orbisonia, PA and New York, NY
Printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
x1975-388
The deep, impenetrable black field of this print was created by a process of layering ink through a series of three screens; onto two of these the tonal variations of Bontecou’s drawings were transferred through a photo-sensitive process while on the third a hand-cut stencil ensured a dense plane of ink and clean, graphic shapes. The play between these forms— alternately drawn and stenciled—gives the composition its visual dynamism, posing the questions of what is present and what is absent, of which forms emerge and which recede, materially, visually, and expressively.

Information

Title
Untitled
Dates

1967

Maker
Lee Bontecou
Medium

Screenprint printed from two photoscreens and one hand-cut screen in black on muslin stretched on cardboard

Dimensions

35.5 x 33 cm (14 x 13 in.)
frame: 60.6 × 53 × 4.5 cm (23 7/8 × 20 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Paul F. Walter

Object Number
x1975-388
Place Made

North America, United States

Inscription

Signed in graphite on mount, lower right: Bontecou

Numbered in graphite on mount, lower left: 113//200

Culture
American
Type
prints, screen prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
screen printing, mounting
Subject
black, circles (plane figures)

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