Rooster

 

Zena Kavin

  1912 - 2003 (biography)

c. 1935  

lithograph 

10 3/4 x 14 3/4" image 

pencil, lower left 

7 of 20  

initialed on the stone, lower right 

 

cream wove Warren's Oldestyle watermarked paper 

published 

artist 

7731 

$400.00 

Zena Kavin was definitely influenced by Surrealism. In her lithographs, two-headed birds are dressed as dancers, an osprey dressed as a Harlequin catches a fish with it wooden wand, birds in costumes celebrate in dance, creatures play musical instruments, and a bird crosses a street via a tightrope. In this lithograph, is this rooster foregoing his traditional mating dance, mount, and tread for the more genteel romance associated with a single rose?