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Bird Machine No. 2- - 1953, Engraving.

Edition 35. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 12/35 in pencil.

Image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 225 mm); sheet size 11 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches (286 x 375 mm).

A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully controlled platetone, on off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 3 inches), in excellent condition.

Dehner initially printed this work as Bird Machine No.1, then turned the image 180° and editioned the work with the title Bird Machine No.2.

Reproduced: The women of Atelier 17, Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York; Christina Weyl, Yale University Press, 2019, Figure 72. Bird Machine No.1 is reproduced in Paths to the Press, Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960; Marianna Kistler, Beach Museum of Art, 2000.

Collections: Bird Machine No.1; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art. Bird Machine No.2; Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

$2600.


Nocturne- - 1954, Etching.

Edition 35. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 11/35 in pencil.

Image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 225 mm); sheet size 11 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches (286 x 375 mm).

A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (3 to 3 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

SOLD


The Bridge (New York Landscape)- - 1958, Etching.

Edition 30. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 8 13/16 x 11 7/8 inches (224 x 302 mm); sheet size 13 x 19 3/4 inches (330 x 502 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 to 4 inches), in excellent condition.

SOLD


The Maiden Aunts- - 1955, Etching.

Edition 35. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 34/35 in pencil.

Image size 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (137 x 181 mm); sheet size 8 x 10 inches (203 x 254 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 5/8 inch), in excellent condition.

SOLD


Lunar Series No. 6- - 1971, Lithograph.

Edition 20. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 11/20 in pencil.

Image size 24 x 36 inches (610 x 914 mm).

A brilliant, black impression of this monumental lithograph. Printed to the sheet edges on a full sheet of heavy Arches white wove paper, with deckle all around, in excellent condition.

$5200.


#2 Aria- - 1976, Pen and Ink.

Unique. Signed and dated '76 in pencil, lower right. Titled verso, upper left.

Sheet size 18 x 23 inches (457 x 584 mm).

A precisely rendered, geometric abstraction, on a full sheet of cream laid drawing paper, in excellent condition.

$2800.

abstraction, line, geometric, modernism

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