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Nancy GravesNeferchidea /// Abstract Geometric Expressionist Nancy Graves Female Artist 1987
1987
About the Item
Artist: Nancy Graves (American, 1939-1995)
Title: "Neferchidea"
Portfolio: Black Ground Series
*Signed and dated by Graves in pencil lower right
Year: 1987
Medium: Original Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint, and Embossing on Fabriano Artistico paper
Limited edition: 11/36, (there were also 6 artist's proofs)
Printer: Adriano Corazzi, Antonio Di Leo, and Giuseppe Di Leo of Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia d'Arte, Rome, Italy
Publisher: 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome, Italy
Reference: "Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print - A Catalogue Raisonné" - Padon No. 66, page 108-109
Framing: Framed in a contemporary black moulding with a 100% cotton rag mat and plexiglass
Framed size: 39.5" x 46.75"
Sheet size: 35.38" x 44"
Image size: 23.5" x 31.25"
Condition: Some cosmetic wear to frame and plexiglass with some marker touch-ups. The print is in mint condition with strong colors
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Philadelphia, PA. Numbered by Graves in pencil lower left. Comes from Graves' 1987 "Black Ground Series" portfolio of three intaglio prints, (Padon Nos. 65-67, page 108-109). The three works include "Anifoglie", "Neferchidea", and "Radix". Printed in four runs from four copperplates: 1 yellow, orange, solferino, and yellow green (aquatint); 2 yellow green, violet, and light yellow red (aquatint; 3 ultramarine, blue mille, and emerald green (aquatint); 4 black (etching, aquatint, and drypoint). Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia d'Arte and 2RC Edizioni d'Arte chop marks/blind stamps lower left. Processing, proofing, and printing supervised by Valter and Eleonora Rossi; edition printing by Adriano Corazzi, Antonio Di Leo, and Giuseppe Di Leo.
"Josef Albers's "interaction of Color", a course Graves had taken as a student at the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University in the early 1960's, was the inspiration for a series of paintings the artist completed between 1981 and 1983. In this related series of intaglio prints, Graves explored the optical effects of intense color against black grounds. In "Anifoglie", "Neferchidea", and "Radix", the artist also manipulated the ability of various intaglio print techniques to create distinct planar entities. Adding to the complex spatial readings is the artist's selective use of embossing that included areas of the black ground, creating forms that are read almost subliminally. The BATs for all three prints were pulled in 1984, the editions in 1987." - "Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print - A Catalogue Raisonné" - Padon page 108.
Biography:
Nancy Graves (1939-1995) was an American artist, best known for her abstract paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. Her work focused on exploring natural systems and environments, veiled by an aesthetic layer of ambiguity and colorful composition. “She sensed she was making art in the ‘information age,’” the director of the present-day Nancy Graves foundation, Christina Hunter, has said of her work. “And people like Julie Mehretu have looked very closely at her work.” Born on December 23, 1939 in Pittsfield, MA, Graves graduated from Vassar College before earning her BFA and MFA at Yale University, where she befriended fellow prominent artists such as Brice Marden, Janet Fish, and Richard Serra, whom she would go on to marry in 1965. Graves was celebrated as an influential figure in Post-Minimalist art, and in 1969 was the youngest person to ever have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at the age of 29. She was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as a 1964 Fulbright Scholarship and the Skowhegan Medal for Drawing/Graphics in 1980. The artist died following a diagnosis of ovarian cancer in New York, NY on October 21, 1995 at the age of 55.
- Creator:Nancy Graves (1940-1995, American)
- Creation Year:1987
- Dimensions:Height: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Width: 46.75 in (118.75 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121213781442
Nancy Graves
A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and became a graduate of Vassar College in 1961 and then Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Graves won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for painting, allowing her to spend a year in Paris in 1964-65. In the next few years, she traveled in North Africa and the Near East and lived and worked in Florence, Italy where she did her first signature work, which was sculptures of life-size Bactrian camels.
In 1966, she moved to New York City and further experimented with ways to produced these sculptures by building wood and steel armatures, covering them with skins of animal embryos, stuffing the skins with polyurethane to form humps, and tinting the skins with oil paints.
In 1968, she had her first New York one-woman show at the Graham Gallery followed by her second one-woman show at the Whitney Museum in 1969. Both exhibitions featured her camels.
In 1972 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, she made sculpture suggestive of Indian objects such as bones, skins, and feathers and added also steel rods to this motif for other exhibitions.
As a filmmaker, she has had showings in film festivals in London, New York, and Boston. Source: Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"
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