Hawaii 1969 by Gabor Peterdi

This is an etching by Gabor Peterdi from 1969. The print is from his Hawaiian series. It appears to represent the cross-section of a volcano. Peterdi did a lot of experimentation with cross-sections (as seen in another Peterdi etching in the shop from his Genesis series). It provides a unique perspective, but also explores the primordial origins of the islands themselves. The use of bold colors as energy with the dominance of red depicting the rising lava. It uses his favorite medium, aquatint etching giving it the look of a painting or watercolor. The image size is 7 x 10 inches and it is in pristine condition. A wonderful example from this master etcher.

Gabor Peterdi 1915-2001
Gabor Peterdi was born in Hungary. He began the study of art at age 14 at the Hungarian Academy. After just a couple of years he was able to study at the Academia delle Belle Arti on scholarship. He also studied in Paris at both the Academie Julian and the Academie Scandinavien. His steep ascendency in the art world continued when he joined the prestigious Atelier 17 (Paris) in 1933 at age 18. Under the tutelage of the great artist and teacher William Stanley Hayter, he learned etching and engraving. Printmaking became his preferred outlet and he became recognized as one of the pre-eminent print artists of the post-WWII era.
His talent was recognized almost immediately as he had his first exhibit when he as 15 at the Ernst Museum in Budapest. That same year he won the Prix de Rome scholarship leading to his time at the Academia delle Belle Arti. Following his arrival in the United States in 1939, he had a solo exhibit of paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Following WWII (where he served in the US military in Germany as a naturalized citizen of the United States) he joined the Atelier 17 in New York and focused on print making. He preferred intaglio prints and throughout his career explored new techniques that expanded the approach to intaglio printmaking. His work shows the influence of Hayter, although he well beyond the geometric abstractions favored by his mentor. Still, his work retains its abstract expressionist origins.
He became an influential teacher of printmaking joining the faculty of the Brooklyn Museum in 1948 and subsequently teaching at Hunter College, and Yale where he finished his career. He authored a very influential book on the art of printmaking, Printmaking Methods Old and New.
His work is held in many major collections, most notably the National Gallery of Art (that has more than 20 of his prints), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Size: 1969
Price: $300
Size: 9.25 x 12.25
Plate Size: 7 x 10
Condition: Pristine
Medium: Aquatint Etching
Subject: Landscape

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