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. |