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HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980) Celestial Gate.
HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Celestial Gate.
Color screenprint, 1979. 507x608 mm; 20x24 inches, wide margins. Trial proof, aside from an edition of approximately 175. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Trial Proof" and dedicated "To L. Dorsey" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ed O'Connell Photographics, New York, with the blind stamp lower right. A unique proof, with cutouts, printer's instructions inscribed in pencil, and offsetting in the margins.
The artist passed away the year following this printing. One of the artist's best known series of paintings, Woodruff's Celestial Gate works incorporate the forms derived from Asante gold weights and the doors of dwellings of Dogon chiefs in Mali with modernist abstraction.
Celestial Gate.
Color screenprint, 1979. 507x608 mm; 20x24 inches, wide margins. Trial proof, aside from an edition of approximately 175. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Trial Proof" and dedicated "To L. Dorsey" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ed O'Connell Photographics, New York, with the blind stamp lower right. A unique proof, with cutouts, printer's instructions inscribed in pencil, and offsetting in the margins.
The artist passed away the year following this printing. One of the artist's best known series of paintings, Woodruff's Celestial Gate works incorporate the forms derived from Asante gold weights and the doors of dwellings of Dogon chiefs in Mali with modernist abstraction.
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