Andree Ruellan

Masques

Andree Ruellan's original aquatint engraving, Masques is an accomplished work of art created in 1951. The artist was inspired by a 1948 visit to New Orleans and during the following years produced a number of images dealing with Mardi Gras and the carnival. In this fine, original aquatint, Ruellan employs the sugar lift technique. Masques is printed upon fine, hand-made, French laid paper with the inverted hand watermark and with wide, full margins as published in the limited edition of one hundred and twenty five impressions. It is signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Masques is a superb, original example of the engraved art created by the American artist, Andree Ruellan.

Original Aquatint Engraving by the American artist, Andree Ruellan.

Masques

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Title:	Masques
Artist:	Ruellan, Andree (New York City, 1905 - Kingston, New York, 2006)
Date:	1951
Medium:	Original Aquatint Engraving
Note:	Andree Ruellan: Born of recently immigrated French parents, Andree Ruellan began studying art at the young age of fifteen when she enrolled in New York’s, Art Students League. There, she studied mostly under Stirling Calder and Maurice Sterne. In 1922 she went with Sterne to complete her education in Rome. Not long afterwards, Ruellan moved to Paris. Her first solo exhibition took place there in 1925 at the Galerie Sacre du Printemps. Her first American individual exhibition was held in 1928 at the Weyhe Gallery, New York.
	During her years in Paris, Andree Ruellan became a major figure of the American artists colony there which included such artists as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Mabel Dwight, Reginald Marsh, Stuart Davis, Benton Spruance and Adolf Dehn. All these now famous American artists created lithographs and etchings in Paris at the Atelier Desjobert. More than any other master printer in Paris, Edmond Desjobert made the American artists welcome and as a consequence his workshop became a central focal point at which they might meet and work together.
	Andree Ruellan’s graphic art is distinguished both in its attention to technique and detail. Even in her earliest prints made at the Atelier Desjobert, her brilliant use of tusche washes and other innovative devices stretched the master printer’s limits. Masques, made later in Ruellan’s career, depicts a strong and steady theme in her figurative art; the world of carnivals, circuses and other celebrations. It, like most of her great prints, drawings and paintings, is vibrant with motion and life.
	Andree Ruellan moved to the rural area around Woodstock, New York, in 1929. A thriving artist community, Woodstock was home to Adolf Dehn, Arnold Blanch, Harry Gottlieb and many other great painters and printmakers. Andree Ruellan became a leading member of the Woodstock Artists Association and served on its Board of Trustees and the Permanent Collection Committee.
	During the following years Andree Ruellan received such major honors as the Guggenheim Fellowship (1950), the Sally Jacobs-Phoebe Towbin Award (1981) and the Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award (1994). Her art was the subject of a large retrospective exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association in 2000. Today the art of Andree Ruellan is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Springfield Museum of Art, and many other public institutions.
Edition:	Limited edition of one hundred and twenty-five impressions, numbered 80/125.
Reference:	Polly Kline, Andree Ruellan: A Retrospective, http://www.woodstockart.org/perm_coll/ruellen/
Reference:	Clinton Adams, American Lithographers: 1900-1960, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1983, pp. 72 - 77.
Size:	9 3/4 X 7 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $395.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon fine, hand-made, French laid paper with the inverted hand watermark and with wide, full margins as published in the limited edition of 125 signed impressions. Signed, titled and numbered, ‘80/125’ by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Masques is a superb, original example of the art of Andree Ruellan.
Subject:	Andree Ruellan, Masques, original aquatint, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Mabel Dwight, Reginald Marsh, Stuart Davis, Benton Spruance and Adolf Dehn, Atelier Desjobert, Mardi Gras, carnival, Woodstock Artists Association, Guggenheim Fellowship.
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