© Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Interpretation
Nevelson is best known for her monochromatic, painted wood relief sculptures that combine abstract forms with found objects. Here she applied a similar assemblage technique to her graphic works. In each of the sixteen lithographs from her Double Imagery series, printing elements are inverted and reversed to create a rhythmic composition from component parts. After the first printing, the irregularly shaped papers were laid atop the wet lithographs and run through the press a second time, producing a semitransparent, lightly blotted layer in a mirrored response to the original saturated impression. The varying weights and densities of color lend these works visual and spatial complexity.
Information
- Title
- Double Imagery
- Object Number
- x1981-10
- Medium
- Color lithograph
- Dates
- 1967
- Dimensions
- sheet (left): 92.5 × 78 cm (36 7/16 × 30 11/16 in.) sheet (right): 92.5 × 66 cm (36 7/16 × 26 in.) mount: 97 × 149.5 cm (38 3/16 × 58 7/8 in.) frame: 105.7 × 157.8 × 5.4 cm (41 5/8 × 62 1/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Harcourt
- Culture
- American
- Signatures
- Signed and dated in red ink bottom right: Louise Nevelson '67
- Inscriptions
- Edition inked in red on right sheet, left of center, below gray strip: 9/20
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