Estudio para un Retrato de A.B. (Alberto Barral)

 

Mauricio Lasansky

  1914 - 2012 (biography)

1942  

drypoint; plate printed twice, first in sienna, second in black ink 

10 1/4 x 10" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered; Thein/Lasansky lists an edition of 6 

annotated in pencil, lower left: "Estudio Para un Retrato de A.B."; dated "42" after the signature; dedicated: "A.M. Brandt y senora" 

Thein/Lasansky 50; Zigrosser 50 

buff wove 

unique proof 

artist 

19226 

$4,500.00 

A rare, unique proof of sculptor Alberto Barral (born Alberto Barral-Lopez in Spain in 1906; died 1969 in Cordoba, Argentina), a colleague of Lasansky's at the Free Arts School in Villa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina. This impression, titled "Estudio Para un Retrato de A.B." (Study for a portrait of A.B.) is dedicated "A.M. Brandt y señora." The Thein/Lasansky catalogue raisonné lists a total edition of 6.

Lasansky was experimenting with color printing, double printing the plate, once in sepia (for this impression) and the second in black, slightly offset.