LANDACRE, Paul

American (1893 – 1963)

Counterpoint, 1938

Wien 216 iii/iv, before the initials PL added. Wood engraving on laid japanese paper. One of 24 signed impressions in the first edition (there were also 21 in a second edition and 8 signed and 7 unsigned in a third edition). Very rare. Signed, titled, numbered 25/25, and inscribed “For my wife” in pencil. Inscribed in the lower right margin “For ML”. Origins of Art stamp verso.

Counterpoint was based on several drawings of female nudes which Landacre superimposed in the final preparatory drawing (illus.15). True to the medium, the figures are reversed in the wood engraving and the dark areas in the drawing appear as white lines in the print. Perhaps Landacre was inspired by the medium of photography when multiple exposures are overlaid in a photograph, as suggested by Wien in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné.

12 x 8 ¼ inches | 30.5 x 21 cm

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