WILL BARNET Circe PENCIL SIGNED SILKSCREEN Limited Edition "22/50" 1980

Description: Artist: WILL BARNET (American, 1911-2012)Title: "CIRCE II" or "Ariadne" 1980Medium: Original Color Screenprint / Silkscreen / Serigraph on Arches Wove paperSignature: Signed by the Artist in Pencil, and also titled in PencilEdition: Limited Edition of 50 impressions; this one noted as impression no. "XXII" in pencil, as shown Size: 31 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (paper, the full sheet)Printer/Publisher: Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with their blindstamp Reference: Szoke 139, Cole 137 - Will Barnet Prints Catalogue Raisonne no. About the Artist: WILL BARNET (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an important American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins and Cy Twombly. Barnet continued his love of teaching with positions at the Cooper Union, at Yale University, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His works have entered virtually every major public collection in the United States, including, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been the subject of over eighty solo exhibitions held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design Museum, the National Museum of American Art, Montclair Art Museum, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Worcester Art Museum, among others. About This Image by Art Historian Karl Lunde: "In the print Circe II/Ariadne by Will Barnet the subject is the most renowned sorceress of Greek mythology, best known for turning men into animals and birds; a reference to the power of woman to bewitch men by arousing their animal emotions. In this print, a fragile peaceful woman is in a contradictory element of destructive and protective qualities, the bringer of life and death. At home with birds in the tree, her face turned from us and thus unreadable, eternal and patient, waiting like a spider in a web of branches, she is a strange combination of the destructive and creative elements of woman. As the creator-destroyer with the crow — the blackest bird, a silhouette of darkness, of the unknowable and of death — she is also in a circle which removes her from the context of the four directions. She is a vision, endless like the circle, coming back on itself: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. She sits in a black tree in an intimate relationship with her black birds; presumably they are in her power. So she is at ease with the mysteries and even in control as she looks out waiting to the sea. She is the culmination of other images that Will Barnet has created; the woman with a cat (an animal that also knows the mysteries of the afterlife), the woman with an apple like Eve, the woman looking out to sea on her widow’s-walk, staring into the void, and the woman reading, blowing bubbles, or playing chess. Will Barnet creates moments of significance out of pastimes, Circe’s delicate balance in this tree reflects her precarious emotional position, but she is on her own island, comfortable and harmonious in her chosen setting." Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

Price: 1250 USD

Location: Indio, California

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