Skating
Artist
Dorothy Dehner
American, 1901 - 1994
Printer
Stewart Nachmias
American, born 1958
Date1953, printed ca. 1991
MediumEngraving on pink chine collé (appliqué) ground over laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 6 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (16.8 × 20 cm)
Plate mark: 2 7/16 × 4 in.
Matboard: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
Plate mark: 2 7/16 × 4 in.
Matboard: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Marshall Ford
Object number2012.4.2
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Works on Paper
SignedLR below plate in pencil: "D. Dehner"
InscribedLL in pencil: "Ed. 125" (apparently these prints were not annotated as to each print of the 125 in the edition. Another of these prints in the collection of MoMA has the same "Ed. 125" inscription).
MarkingsWatermark in paper: "BFK RIVES FRANCE"
DescriptionGeometric forms on a pink ground. Pink tissue chine applique creates a transparent, pink ground with fine, long, thin grain, possible a rice paper. There are very lightly printed "ghost" lines that appear to be faded into the background and at first almost look to have been erased from the original plate. Under magnification these lines appear to have been made with a roulette wheel used in mezzotint. These ghost lines connect with the darker, engraved lines and change the seemingly simple linear image to a far more complex, dimensional one.Exhibition History"Dorothy Dehner at the Hyde", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 27, 2013 - April 14, 2013."Women Modernists". Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 19, 2019 - April 3, 2019.
“A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now,” Charles R. Wood Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, June 22 – Sept. 15, 2024.ProvenanceHugh Allen Wilson
Saratoga Springs, NY, Marshall Ford
2012, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
