Girl Reading
Lithograph, 1938, edition 50. 8 x 11 1/2 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed and numbered in pencil. The print is initialed by the printer, Lynton Kistler, lower left next to the numbering. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. In 1934, Feitelson and his artist wife, Helen Lundberg, developed a style they called "subjective classicism" which is really a brand of surrealism; Post-Surrealism as it was often referred to. In addition to making his own work, He became the Supervisor of murals, paintings and sculpture for the California WPA Federal Art Project. This print was included in the exhibition, Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980 by Ebria Feinblatt and Bruce Davis (1980), entry # 52. An impression of this stellar lithograph in the National Gallery among other institutions.
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Post-Surreal Configuration: Biological Symphony
Lithograph, 1939, edition 20. 12 1/8 x 17 1/4 in. Signed and dated on the stone, lower left. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a small previous hinge on the top left edge, verso. This highly regarded and uncommon print was originally printed in an edition of twelve and in 1972 the second edition of twenty was printed. "Through the WPA project and it's lithographic printer, Carl Winter, Feitelson and (Helen) Lundeberg undertook to make prints which reflected these noted artists' achievements in Post-Surreal Abstraction, which they pioneered in Southern California." This text is on page 18 of Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980, by Ebria Feinblatt and Bruce Davis (1980). This print is illustrated on page 53 of this catalogue and there's a painting which relates to the lithograph. (Impressions of this print are found in the National Gallery of Art (DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney American Art Museum.)
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