Joan Aghib 1924-2008 Engraving Signed "Underground Garden" E.A. 1967 S.W. Hayter

Description: [20th ART - AMERICAN ARTIST - ENGRAVINGS - STUDENT OF STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER - WORKSHOP 17] -Joan AGHIB1924-2008 -Joan Aghib is an American engraver and painter born in New York in 1924 and active in Paris then Brussels from the 1960s until her death in 2008. After studying philosophy at the University of Michigan, training in painting with Hans Hoffman and engraving at Pratt Graphics in New York, she joined Atelier 17 at STANLEY William Hayter in Paris before joining the Ixelles School of Arts in Belgium.His graphic works consist ofabstract elements which are assembled into one whole at once poetic and figurative. Joan Aghib explores the subject of landscape, sometimes rural in almost abstract compositions of Italian reliefs, sometimes urban in vertical views of Brussels or New York under construction. The textures, important in his conception of images, come from the use of soft varnish to take impressions of various materials (mesh, lace, canework, cardboard). Applying the Hayter technique, learned from the master in his Parisian workshop (see below), she carries out a single inking in several colors. Pastel, earthy and soft, these colors give his images a poetic and naive character. The perspectives are folded back to create an image of stacked layers, all in balance.ATELIER 17 AND THE HAYTER TECHNIQUEL'Atelier 17 is an engraving workshop, founded in 1933 by the painter and engraver STANLEY William Hayter (London, 1901 - Paris, 1988). It will establish itself in Paris, London then New York before settling permanently in Paris in the 1950s. Many artists have frequented Atelier 17, including Pierre Alechinsky, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Raoul Ubac but also the North American artists JACKSON Pollock, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Robert Motherwell or Mark Rothko.In the 1960s, STANLEY William Hayter developed a viscosity printing process, or Hayter technique. In engraving, inking with several colors is traditionally done with one plate per color. The process Hayter developed uses a single plate for all colors by experimenting with carefully chosen inks and rollers. The zinc plate is engraved on several levels of depth, each level corresponding to a color. Combined with inks of different viscosities which reject each other, the more or less hard rollers make it possible to reach each level of the plate and thus to print, in a single pass under the press, a multi-colored image.-Very Very Rare WorkVery very limited edition (15 copies. or less, maybe unique) Artist proof “Underground garden [sic]”1967Superb engraving in very interesting and mysterious rust, bronze and copper colorsSigned, dated, titled and justified in pencil by the artist under the subject Presented in an original gilded wooden frameFrame size: 57 x 45.5cmBowl format: approximately 39.5 x 24.5cm - Very good general condition, clean overall,some usual usual blows or rubbing on wood and gilding of the frameUnframed engraving, very good condition visible under the glass, barely yellowed paper, without any foxing see visuals... His graphic works consist ofabstract elements which are assembled into one whole at once poetic and figurative. Joan Aghib explores the subject of landscape, sometimes rural in almost abstract compositions of Italian reliefs, sometimes urban in vertical views of Brussels or New York under construction. The textures, important in his conception of images, come from the use of soft varnish to take impressions of various materials (mesh, lace, canework, cardboard). Applying the Hayter technique, learned from the master in his Parisian workshop (see below), she carries out a single inking in several colors. Pastel, earthy and soft, these colors give his images a poetic and naive character. The perspectives are folded back to create an image of stacked layers, all in balance. In the 1960s, STANHis graphic works consist ofabstract elements which are assembled into one whole at once poetic and figurative. Joan Aghib explores the subject of landscape, sometimes rural in almost abstract compositions of Italian reliefs, sometimes urban in vertical views of Brussels or New York under construction. The textures, important in his conception of images, come from the use of soft varnish to take impressions of various materials (mesh, lace, canework, cardboard). Applying the Hayter technique, learned from the master in his Parisian workshop (see below), she carries out a single inking in several colors. Pastel, earthy and soft, these colors give his images a poetic and naive character. The perspectives are folded back to create an image of stacked layers, all in balance. In the 1960s, STAN

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