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Color Lithography, Signed in Pencil by Swedish Artist Oscar Reutersvärd, Nr 35/93 18a
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Product description
Color Lithography, signed in pencil by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd. Numbered 35/93. Watermark.
Item is part of his series called "Omöjliga Figurer" (Impossible Figures) 3D drawings.
Colors: Beautiful moss green/yellow, blue, white, light apricot/pink.
Visible sheet size: 56 x 36 cm
Frame: 70 x 49 cm
The artwork is in great condition. The frame has two minor scratches (could not even get them on photo) on the plastic surface of the "glass" down left of the image.
Oscar Reutersvärd (29 November 1915 – 2 February 2002) was a Swedish graphic artist, who in 1934 pioneered the art of 3D drawings that may initially appear feasible, yet cannot be physically constructed. He is sometimes described as "the father of the impossible figure," although there are much older examples, e.g. Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.
He would create his figures with India ink on Japanese rice paper, drawing freehand, without a ruler or any mechanical device. He generally used "Japanese perspective, where all parallel lines remain parallel and do not meet at points of visual convergence." The shaky lines, often exacerbated by working on the ten-hour train ride between Stockholm and Lund, are obvious in some of his pictures. Figures were frequently colored with Japanese colored chalk. In comparing his work to that of the much more famous artist of the impossible, M. C. Escher, it can be observed that Escher builds inhabited worlds around impossible objects, whereas Reutersvärd's designs generally consist of pure geometric forms.
Reutersvärd produced more than 2,500 figures. In the late 1960s, several books were published featuring his work, and he attracted a following, with many international gallery exhibitions. Through the 1980s and 1990s, he continued to develop impossible figures, filling many notebooks. Finally, in the mid-1990s, his work was prominently commissioned for several public buildings in Sweden, and the Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet both displayed his work.
two minor scratches on the frame, see description.
two minor scratches on the frame, see description.
Specifications
ConditionVery goodColorsMulti ColorMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight70 cmWidth50 cmSigns of usageScratches