Buffeted
Graphite on thin paper, 1935, unique (sold with the print ) 5 x 4 1/8 in. (image) Signed and dated in the lower right. This fine drawing is the study for the same image done in etching in 1937. The drawing is mounted on a thin white support sheet and is in fine condition. The etching measures 5 x 4 in. and is signed and inscribed "etat AP." The condition is fine overall apart from a soft wrinkle in the lower right corner of the margin. (There was a second edition of the print published in 1985 published by the June 1 Gallery which shows an embossed "EP" just to the lower left of the image. This does not appear in our impression. (It's a reference to the printer, Eldindean Press Edition, done in an edition of 100 as part of a portfolio of eight prints.) Citron studied at the Arts Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller and became a member of the "14th Street School" of artists. She was also a member of of the New York WPA program.
$1,400

Squid Under Pier
Etching and engraving printed in color, 1949, edition 50. 15 x 17 7/8 in. Signed, dated, titled and with the following inscription, "2 color plates etch & engr, ed. 50." This is a very fine impression of this large and important work which Citron produced at Atelier 17. The margins are wide and the condition is very good. (There's a faint suggestion of toning within on old mat opening and soiling here in there in the margins and on the verso.) This print was included in Pursuit of Abstraction, American Prints 1930-1950, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986); is illustrated and discussed in, A Spectrum of Innovation, Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960, pp. 182-183, by David Acton (1990); and was exhibited at the Susan Teller Gallery (this impression) in their exhibition, Sue Fuller and the New York Atelier 17, in 2004. Impressions are found in the Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Fogg Art Museum, among others.
SOLD