Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

Fritz WotrubaWW-1973-M052310

1973·Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts·composition: 14 1/2 x 17 1/2" (36.9 x 44.4cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 30 1/16" (56 x 76.4cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Dimensions: composition: 14 1/2 x 17 1/2" (36.9 x 44.4cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 30 1/16" (56 x 76.4cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Fritz Wotruba

Artist

Fritz Wotruba

Sculpture

Fritz Wotruba was an Austrian sculptor whose abstract stone carvings reduced the human figure to elemental geometric forms. Working primarily in limestone and granite from the 1930s onward, his practice evolved from expressionist figuration toward a stark, architectonic language of interlocking planes and voids that suggested rather than depicted the body. His monumental works occupied public and ecclesiastical spaces across postwar Austria and Europe, establishing him as a leading figure in modernist sculpture. Wotruba's formal vocabulary, built on direct carving and the material's inherent properties, influenced generations of stone sculptors.

Vienna, Austria

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