AL HELD Signed 1986 Original Color Soft Ground Etching

Description: AL HELD Signed 1986 Original Color Soft Ground Etching - "Pablo Seven" This is a superb original signed and numbered limited edition color soft ground etching by internationally acclaimed artist AL HELD (American, 1928 - 2005), dated 1986. This rare original color etching is entitled "Pablo Seven" and is signed in pencil by the artist on the verso "Al Held" and dated "86". It is also numbered "14/50", from the total limited edition of only 50 impressions printed on heavy paper. It was published/printed by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, and bears their inkstamp on the verso. It measures 23 ¾" x 35 ½" and is unframed. It is in good condition aside from two soft handling creases and slight crimping at the upper right sheet edge. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. This color etching is currently listed at Crown Point Press with a fair market value of $8,500. Packing, shipping and insurance is $85.00 within the US only. Please view my eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles. American painter. He was in Paris from 1950 to 1952, along with Ellsworth Kelly, George Sugarman, Jack Youngerman (b 1926) and Sam Francis. On his return to New York he made contact with Abstract Expressionist painters, painting in a subdued, impressionistic manner. The hard-edge paintings that developed from these works were partly a reaction to painterly rhetoric, but were remarkable for their forceful presence, the effect of robust simplicity and mammoth scale, with alphabet forms seeming to expand beyond the limits of the canvas. In 1967 he rejected the flatness, symmetry and strictures against illusionism that at the time dominated American painting and embarked on the diagrammatic reinterpretation of Cubism that over the next 20 years was to be refined into a sophisticated abstract style. By 1974 he had established a linear vocabulary that contrasted inscribed circles with the thicker bars of cubes or prisms, initially in black and white and later in color. These geometric solids, appearing by turns opaque, transparent, or as impossible fictions, presented a peculiarly abstract space, the world of planetary motions or equally of molecular structure. Despite their clean-cut look, the paintings originated in loose painterly improvisation, with all the re-working erased by an electric sander. In his distrust of theory and his insistence that order must be won from chaos, Held thus maintained in his own style the ethic of Abstract Expressionism.

Price: 2500 USD

Location: Los Angeles, California

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