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The Purple Claw from Portfolio of Five Prints

Gabor PeterdiWW-1952-M125309

1952·Etching and engraving with stencil additions from a portfolio with five etching and engravings (four with stencil additions)·plate: 14 × 16 13/16" (35.5 × 42.7 cm); sheet: 15 9/16 × 21 13/16" (39.6 × 55.4 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1952
Medium: Etching and engraving with stencil additions from a portfolio with five etching and engravings (four with stencil additions)
Dimensions: plate: 14 × 16 13/16" (35.5 × 42.7 cm); sheet: 15 9/16 × 21 13/16" (39.6 × 55.4 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Gabor Peterdi

Artist

Gabor Peterdi

Painting

Gabor Peterdi was a Hungarian-born American printmaker and painter whose mastery of intaglio techniques, particularly etching and engraving, made him a defining figure in postwar American printmaking. Working from the 1940s onward, he developed a lyrical abstract vocabulary that merged gestural mark-making with precise linear composition, often drawing on architectural and natural forms. His prints and paintings were instrumental in elevating the technical and conceptual possibilities of the medium during a period when printmaking was undergoing significant artistic renewal in the United States.

New York City

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