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Lot 54 George Segal (1924-2000)
Born in New York in 1924, Segal was one of the many sculptors enticed to work with the Stamperia d’Arte 2RC. An artist’s fascinated with the human form, he created limbs, torsos and full figures from stone and plaster. Trying to find a graphic equivalent to plaster casts, Valter and Eleonora Rossi offered to be the models with which to transfer impressions of their bodies onto the copper plates. Thus the Blue Jeans series was born, produced by using powdered resin, watered-down acids with which their jeans where drenched and a deliberately limited palette in order to created these ghostly images, who imply at once a physical presence and absence. The portraits of Walter and Helen III were realised a decade later, not in the familial environment experienced in Rome, but in a colder New Jersey studio. The versatility of Segal as an artist can be appreciated through these two drastically different series.
Born in New York in 1924, Segal was one of the many sculptors enticed to work with the Stamperia d’Arte 2RC. An artist’s fascinated with the human form, he created limbs, torsos and full figures from stone and plaster. Trying to find a graphic equivalent to plaster casts, Valter and Eleonora Rossi offered to be the models with which to transfer impressions of their bodies onto the copper plates. Thus the Blue Jeans series was born, produced by using powdered resin, watered-down acids with which their jeans where drenched and a deliberately limited palette in order to created these ghostly images, who imply at once a physical presence and absence. The portraits of Walter and Helen III were realised a decade later, not in the familial environment experienced in Rome, but in a colder New Jersey studio. The versatility of Segal as an artist can be appreciated through these two drastically different series.
George Segal (1924-2000)
Three figures in red shirt, from: Blue Jeans
Closed26 February 2014
Price Realised
GBP 2,000