Terry Haass 'interspatial' Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Etching- Atelier 17

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This is a great piece. I have owned a few Terry Haass works in the past. Every time I get … Read more This is a great piece. I have owned a few Terry Haass works in the past. Every time I get a chance to buy them, I generally do. Haass is a remarkable important artist who I constantly believe is underappreciated. I just acquired a small collection of her prints that I am offering in my store over the next few weeks. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included her biography below. This is a particularly scarce and special print by the artist. A wonderful rich black and blue abstract expressionist etching with aquatint. Image measures 16 1/4 x 24 inches on complete original sheet measuring 22 1/4 x 29 3/4 inches. Signed, titled, and numbered from an edition of 60 in pencil below the image. Image is in outstanding as printed condition. There is a faint toning box from the original matte but really that is the only issue. Minor consistent toning to the sheet and a little tape residue at the very top margin. Otherwise, really a very fine example of one of her rare prints. Unframed. If you collect Haass' work, check my store for the others I am offering. A great chance to build your collection of her wonderful works. Print is stored in a tube and will be shipped that way.

For those not familiar with the artist, her biography from a gallery that sells the artist's work reads: "Terry Haass (nee Terezie Goldmannová), printmaker, painter, designer, and sculptor, was born in Cesky Tesin, Czechoslovakia on 17 November 1923. She with her mother and half-brother fled Czechoslovakia in 1938 due to the rise of anti-Semitism and, by way of Switzerland, found their way to France. In Paris, she studied fashion and art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière until she was once again displaced by war. In 1941, the family moved to the south of France and then were smuggled to Portugal where they were able to book passage to New York. They settled in the upper west side of Manhattan where she met and soon married Walter Haass, a German refugee. Terry Haass received a scholarship to the Art Students’ League where she studied printmaking with Will Barnet and Harry Sternberg. She began working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental workshop, Atelier 17, in 1947. Haass co-directed the workshop with artist Harry Hoehn in the spring and summer of 1951 when Hayter returned to Paris. See less