Louise Nevelson

Trees in Circle

Louise Nevelson's "Trees in Circle" is an original etching and aquatint printed upon pure rag Rives watermarked paper and with full margins as published in a limited edition of twenty impressions by Pace Editions in New York in 1965. This impression is signed, titled and numbered, in pencil by Louise Nevelson along the lower margin. "Trees in Circle" represents a fine original example of the graphic art created by the 20th century American sculptor and graphic artist, Louise Nevelson.

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Title:	Trees in Circle
Artist:	Nevelson, Louise (Born, Kiev, Russia, 1900 - New York, 1989)
Date:	1965
Medium:	Original Etching & Aquatint
Publisher:	Pace Editions, New York
Note:	Louise Nevelson has been called 'the most distinguished sculptor in America and one of the great sculptors of the world'. Her original etchings occupy a no less exalted position. In both mediums, she created new fields of form and space that made her one of the most innovative and influential voices of post 1945 modern art.
	At the age of five, Louise Nevelson moved to Maine with her family. She moved to New York in 1920 and began studying art. Several years later Louise Nevelson worked at the Art Students League under Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1931, she finished her formal training in painting in Munich under Hans Hofmann. Louise Nevelson returned to New York the following year where she met the famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera. She became his primary assistant there and worked with him on his series of New York murals entitled, Portrait of America.
	By the mid 1930's, Louise Nevelson was establishing a reputation for her sculptures and paintings. Her premier gallery showing was at the Secession Gallery in New York and at the Brooklyn Museum. Although well respected at this time, it would take another twenty years before Nevelson was regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists in America. The prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art purchased one of her sculptures in 1956 and the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired her Sky Cathedral in 1958.
	Louise Nevelson first turned to etching as a creative medium in the early 1950's when she worked with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. After several years of experimentation she created her first great prints from 1953 to 1955. Apart from a handful of several trial proofs, these etchings were not published until the mid 1960's, and then in very small, limited editions. This is the case with Trees in Circle, created by Louise Nevelson at the Atelier 17 around 1955 and printed and published by Pace Editions in 1965 in an edition of only twenty impressions. These early Louise Nevelson etchings are valuable not only because of their extreme rarity -- Trees in Circle has yet to appear in any auction house! -- But because of their clear relationship to her sculpture. On the two dimensional surface of paper, in fact, Louise Nevelson was examining the same challenge of forms and space that inspired her sculpture and collages. One can, for instance, see in Trees in Circle many of the shapes and lines that constitute her black wood sculptures of this period. Louise Nevelson herself summed it up best when she talked of the similarity between her original prints and her sculpture: "I really deal with shadow and space."*
Reference:	* Jean Lipman, Nevelson's World, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1983, 244 pp. (The above quotation is on p. 195.)
Raisonne:	Gene Baro, Louise Nevelson: The Prints, New York, 1974.
	Catalogue # 29, First and only State, as published by Pace Editions in New York in 1965 in the limited edition of twenty, numbered (15/20).
Provenance:	Purchased in 1969 by a private collector from the Pollock Gallery, Toronto. The original Pollock Gallery label is included.
Size:	19 5/8 X 23 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	UnMatted
Condition:	Printed on pure rag Rives watermarked paper and with full margins as printed in New York in 1965. Signed, Titled and numbered, 15/20 in pencil by the artist along the lower margin. Trees in Circle is in excellent condition throughout. This scarce, original etching represents a superb example of the famous art of Louise Nevelson, a modern American Master.
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