Portrait of an Artist
1961 · Etching and engraving
plate: 20 3/16 x 17" (51.3 x 43.2cm); sheet: 21 7/8 x 18 7/8" (55.5 x 48cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Mauricio Lasansky
Artist
PrintmakingExpressionismBaroque
Representation
None documented
11
Institutional Exhibitions
16
Works in Collection
24
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0
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- • Expressionism
- • Baroque
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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American Prints from the International Program
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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The Artist as His Subject
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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The Artist as His Subject
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
About
Why this artist matters now
Mauricio Lasansky was an American printmaker renowned for large-scale intaglio works executed with obsessive technical precision and expressionistic intensity. Born in Argentina and based in Iowa from the 1940s onward, he pioneered the development of color intaglio at a scale that challenged the medium's traditional intimacy. His prints, often achieved through multiple plates and layered inking, combined baroque ornamentation with brutal figural imagery rooted in postwar anxieties. Lasansky's rigorous approach to printmaking as a fine art medium established him as a central figure in twentieth-century American printmaking.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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