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RARE WALTER PASHKO (USA/1930-2016) MODERN LG PENCIL SIGNED FIG WOODBLOCK #3/7
$ 246.83
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Description
RAREWALTER PASHKO
(AME
RI
CAN,
1930-2016)
MODERNIST PENCIL SIGNED ABSTRACT
FIGURATIVE
LARGE COLOR WOODBLOCK
PRINT, EDITION NUMBER #3/7,
IN ORIGINAL
GOLD GILT WOODEN FRAME
LISTED BOSTON AREA ARTIST
(Circa 1958-1966)
Mid-20th century vintage
Ame
ri
can
printmaking
DIMENSIONS:
23" Height x 37
½" Width
(Frame)
17
¼" Height x 32" Width
(Image)
DESCRIPTION:
Offered is this wonderful
Modernist,
pencil signed, large format, abstract, figurative color woodblock print of a covered nude woman sleeping or in repose, by the well-listed
Ame
ri
can
Modernist
painter and artist
Walter Pashko,
who for many years, was a professor of fine art at Tufts Universities' Museum School for fine art studies. In his early years, he studied painting in Hartford, CT and then traveled all the way to Mexico, where he studied with some of the internationally known and celebrated Mexican muralist painters and their first generation proteges, wanting to learn the art of mural making (fresco painting on wet plaster.) He then moved back to the
Unit
ed St
ates
after having become quite adept at the art of printmaking, which he pursued while he was in Mexico. He landed an assistant position in the printmaking department at Tufts Universities' Museum School. He remained at the Boston, MA art school for over thirty years, taking over the printmaking department under his wing after his initial supervisor had retired. Though
Pashko
taught and was principally involved with the craft and discipline of fine art printmaking, he still considered himself principally to be a painter. He retired in the 1990's and continued to produce relevant and fresh Modernist images well into his seventies. He used pattern, broken and fractured, deconstructed and reassembled pictorial fields and strong, undiluted, non-representational color, to create surprise, visual excitement and to render the oft recognized, new and fresh once again to the viewer's eye, as is the case with this exciting and marvelous color figurative woodblock print. It's pencil signed by the artist in the lower right and is from a very small edition, being print number three of seven (3/7) making it a scarce and quite rare work by the now late
Ame
ri
can
artist indeed. A gorgeous color woodblock print. Really wonderful and in absolutely terrific, well-preserved condition. Beautiful.
CONDITION:
Very Good to Excellent overall vintage condition.