Portrait of Sphinx: Etching 5 of 6
Portrait of Sphinx: Etching 5 of 6

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Portrait of Sphinx: Etching 5 of 6,

1970

Ikeda Masuo 池田満寿夫, 1934–1997
Japanese
Shōwa era, 1926–1989
2006-836.1
"Real things can be strange, and so-called common things unfamiliar," noted the artist on the occasion of his solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965. Ikeda distinguished himself from his postwar Japanese peers with his embrace of fantasy and satire; in this portfolio, he used a combination of posture, gaze, and gesture to present the woman at the center of each composition in the guise of the mercurial and mythological subject of a sphinx. He integrated the techniques of etching and mezzotint in these prints, allowing the detailed faces and hands of his figures to emerge from expressive fields of color.

Information

Title
Portrait of Sphinx: Etching 5 of 6
Dates

1970

Maker
Ikeda Masuo 池田満寿夫
Medium
Etching, roulette, and mezzotint on BFK Rives paper
Dimensions
image: 29.7 x 26 cm. (11 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 49.2 x 36.5 cm. (19 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert L. Poster, Class of 1962, and Amy Poster
Object Number
2006-836.1
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Signed and dated in pencil lower right: M Ikeda '70
Inscription
Blind-stamped: Masuo Ikeda Originial Etching
Culture
Japanese
Period
Showa
Type
etchings, mezzotints, prints, roulettes
Materials
roulette, paper, mezzotints
Techniques
etching (printing process)
Subject
figures (representations), portraits, women, blue, black, sphinxes

–2006 Robert L. Poster and Amy Poster (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006.

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