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Still Life I

Gabor Peterdi

William Chambers Art United States

Artwork details

Artist: Gabor Peterdi
Title: Still Life I
Description: etching, engraving, acquatint on zinc with twelve stencil colors, edition of 28 prints from this plate, each one had distinct color applications. signed, dated, and inscribed "artist's proof"
Date: 1956
Medium: Color Etching and Aquatint
Edition: unique
Signature: Signed
Catalogue Raisonne: Johnson 130
Image: 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
Sheet: ----- inches
Price: Price on request

The Artist

Gabor Peterdi

Gabor Peterdi, painter, printmaker, author and educator, was born on September 17, 1915, in Pestujhely, Hungary and began his art studies at the Hungarian Academy in 1929 at the age of fourteen. His first solo exhibition was mounted at the Ernst Museum in 1930 and that same year Peterdi won a Prix de Rome scholarship for painting and continued his studies at the Academia delle Belle Arti. The following year he went to Paris where he attended the Academie Julian and the Academie Scandinavien. He joined Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris in 1933 where he explored the techniques of engraving.