Epic

 

Salvatore Grippi

  1921 - 2017 (biography)

1954  

etching printed in brown and black inks 

7 3/4 x 9 9/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

proof, not editioned 

pencil titled and dated 

 

sturdy cream wove 

 

 

21834 

$700.00 

This image was done in 1954 while the artist was working at Atelier 17 in New York with S.W. Hayter. Grippi, like many of the Atelier 17 surrealists, explored Greek and Roman mythology in an attempt to make sense of the chaos of the post WWII world.