Self-Portrait
Catalogue
- Year
- 1945
- Dimensions
- Plate: 30.4 × 25.1 cm (12 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40.8 × 33.3 cm (16 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Mauricio Lasansky
Artist
Printmaking
Mauricio Lasansky was an American printmaker renowned for large-scale intaglio works executed with obsessive technical precision and expressionistic intensity. Born in Argentina and based in Iowa from the 1940s onward, he pioneered the development of color intaglio at a scale that challenged the medium's traditional intimacy. His prints, often achieved through multiple plates and layered inking, combined baroque ornamentation with brutal figural imagery rooted in postwar anxieties. Lasansky's rigorous approach to printmaking as a fine art medium established him as a central figure in twentieth-century American printmaking.
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1961 · Etching and engraving
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1958 · Color etching, drypoint, soft ground, aquatint, electric stippler, shallow surface bite, scraping and burnishing on white wove paper
Self-Portrait
1957 · Color engraving, electric stippler, scraping and burnishing in ocre and black on white wove paper
The Vision
1956 · Etching, engraving, aquatint, soft ground, electric stippler, scraping and burnishing in yellow ocre and black on ivory wove paper
Spain
1956 · Color etching, engraving, aquatint, soft ground, scraping and burnishing in yellow ocre and black on white wove paper
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1951 · Color engraving, etching, gouging, aquatint, soft ground, lift ground, electric stippler, grease ground, scraping and burnishing on ivory wove paper
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- Mauricio Lasansky
- Year
- 1945
- Dimensions
- Plate: 30.4 × 25.1 cm (12 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40.8 × 33.3 cm (16 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1945-110746
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified