Chaim Koppelman - Homage a Degas

Homage a Degas

Chaim Koppelman's "Homage a Degas" is an original etching and aquatint created by the American artist in 1969. It is clearly one of Koppelman's most provocative works of art. The visual juxtaposition between Degas's famous young ballerina and a dark and desolate urban landscape opens a vast maze of images and questions concerning art and culture. An original etching and aquatint, "Homage a Degas" is printed upon smooth wove paper and with full margins as published by the Associated American Artists, in New York in the limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions. It is signed, titled and numbered by Chaim Koppelman in pencil beneath the lower plate-mark.

Homage a Degas

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Chaim Koppelman (Brooklyn, New York, 1920 - 2009)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Info	-
01-		Critical Still Life by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1976	Signed by Chaim Koppelman and numbered '4/25' in pencil along the lower margin. Edition of twenty five impressions (Plus 5 Artist Proofs).
02.-		Death and the Butcher by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Aquatint	1957	Signed and titled by Chaim Koppelman, edition of 25 impressions.
03.-		Git Li'l Doggie by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1976	Signed by the artist in pencil by Chaim Koppelman in pencil along the lower margin. Edition of twenty five impressions (Plus 5 Artist Proofs).
04.-		Homage a Degas by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Etching and Aquatint	1969	Signed, titled & numbered in pencil by Chaim Koppelman, edition 53/250.	Sold
05.-		Napoleon and Me by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1970	Signed by Chaim Koppelman in pencil beneath the image.	Sold
06.-		Napoleons on Alligators by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Etching	1963	Signed by Chaim Koppelman in pencil beneath the lower plate-mark,edition of fifty impressions.	Sold
07.-		Not There by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1976	Signed by Chaim Koppelman in pencil along the lower right margin. Edition of twenty five impressions (Plus 5 Artist Proofs).
08.-		On Meeting Beauty II by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Aquatint	1958	Signed, titled and annotated 'A.P.' by Chaim Koppelman, edition of 200 (Artist Proof Impression).	Sold
09.-		Once We Were Two Smoothies by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1976	Signed, titled and numbered, '14/25' by Chaim Koppelman in pencil along the lower margin. Edition of twenty five impressions (Plus 5 Artist Proofs).
10.-		Over Brooklyn by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	1976	Signed, titled and numbered, '3/25' by Chaim Koppelman in pencil along the lower margin. Edition of twenty five impressions (Plus 5 Artist Proofs).
11.-		Over Soho by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Lithograph	c. 1970	Signed, titled and numbered '1/30' by Chaim Koppelman in pencil beneath the image.	Sold
12.-		Retrospect by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Etching	1959	Signed & titled in pencil by Chaim Koppelman, edition of 250 impressions.	Sold
13.-		Shadows by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Etching	1957	Signed, dated, titled & inscriibed 'Ed 25' in pencil by Chaim Koppelman, edition of 25 impressions.	Sold
14.-		Voyage by the American artist, Chaim Koppelman	Original Etching	1955	Signed, titled and annotated, "Artist Proof" in pencil by Chaim Koppelman, edition of 30 impressions.

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Title:	Homage a Degas
Artist:	Koppelman, Chaim (Brooklyn, New York, 1920 - 2009)
Date:	1969
Medium:	Original Etching and Aquatint
Publisher:	Associated American Artists, New York
Edition:	Limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions, numbered 53/250.
Note:	Chaim Koppelman: "I want to show the ethical drama of good and evil in ourselves, evocatively, starkly, subtly, humorously, and with mystery." (Artist's quotation from, Marcia Rackow, "Chaim Koppelman: A Selection of Works on Paper", Journal of the Print World, Inc., Meredith, NH, Vol. 23, No. 3, Summer 2000.)
	Chaim Koppelman: More realist than abstractionist and more surrealist than realist, Chaim Koppelman’s etchings, aquatints and lithographs have both enchanted and haunted our imaginations since the end of the Second World War. Koppelman first studied at Brooklyn College and the Educational Alliance (1938) before moving on to the American Artists School of New York (1939) and the New School for Social Research, under Amedee Ozenfant. During the Second World War, Koppelman served with the American Air Force in Europe (1942-45). He used this time to further his artistic education, first at the Art College of Western England, Bristol, (1944) and then at the Ecole Regionale de Beaux-Arts in Reims (1945). As well, he studied the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism in New York with its founder, Eli Siegel, from 1940 to 1978, and continued his studies in this philosophy with the Chairman of Education, Elllen Reiss, until 2009.
	Chaim Koppelman's first one man show was held at the Outline Gallery in Pittsburgh in 1943. Since that time his art has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum, Yale University, the Chicago Art Institute, and as far from home as Mexico City, London and Moscow. Chaim Koppelman is a full member of the Society of American Graphic Artists (past President), the Boston Printmakers and the Society for Aesthetic Realism. His etchings and aquatints are included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery, Washington, and the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In 2000 a large retrospective exhibition of Koppelman's art was held at the Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York.
	Chaim Koppelman's art has long defied easy definition. It is both spiritual and psychological and most often explores our collective dream world. What can be said is that few artists since Goya and William Blake have delineated our unconscious with such brilliant imagery as Chaim Koppelman. Like Goya, however, extraordinary circumstances led Koppelman's art to also speak out in social protest. During the 1960's, he produced some of the most moving images of the horrors of the War in Vietnam. He stated, "For the first time in my life as an artist I felt I had to engage a social theme." *
	Homage a Degas is clearly one of Chaim Koppelman's most provocative works of art. The visual juxtaposition between Degas's famous young ballerina and a dark and desolate urban landscape opens a vast maze of images and questions concerning art and culture. It was commissioned by the Associated American Artists of New York in 1969 and published by them in a signed edition of 250 impressions. Since its creation in the mid 1930's, the Associated American Artists was responsible for commissioning original graphic art from such great American masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and Reginald Marsh. In the 1950's and 1960's it continued to provide outstanding graphics by such artists as Chaim Koppelman, Jack Levine and many other great American and international printmakers. Koppelman is known to have contributed at least three original etchings to this publisher.
Reference:	* Ralph E. Shikes, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic, Boston, Beacon Press, 1969, p. 369.
Size:	11 5/8 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon smooth wove paper and with full margins as published in New York in the limited edition of 250 in 1969. Signed, titled and numbered '53/250' by the artist in pencil beneath the lower plate-mark. A deep, rich impression and in excellent condition throughout. Homage a Degas is a prime, original example of the famous art of Chaim Koppelman.
	The original presentation sticker from the Associated American Artists is included.
Subject:	Chaim Koppelman, Homage a Degas, original etching, aquatint, Associated American Artists of New York
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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