"On Different Planes"

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(1944)

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"On Different Planes" (1944), engraving, 12" x 9", full margins.  First state (of 2). Signed, dated and numbered 1/XXX in pencil by the artist, lower margin.  A very good, evenly printed impression [Rose 228].

Werner Drewes' (1899-1985) art was based in an abstraction that is realistic at its core, but controlled by geometric simplification.  He was among a group of artists that founded the American Abstract Artists (1937) that included Leger, Mondrain and Moholy-Nagy.  His works lead to a rebirth in intaglio printmaking in the United States.  During 1940-41, Drewes was director of the graphic arts section of the Federal Arts Program in NYC while working at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17.  It was during the mid-1940's Drewes evolved his explorations of abstract imagery.

"On Different Planes" was created for the Wittenborn Gallery, NYC, and printed in 1944 at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17 in New York.

This work is presented in a pyramid faced shaped 16 1/4" x 22" frame with a silver lip which has been washed over umber with a slight crackle and finished in black applied over gray to expose a streaked black over gray.  The oyster silk outer and 8-ply black inner mats are acid and lignin free museum quality with CYRO AR OP-3 UV .. $2000.00