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VVV Portfolio: Phantom of the Past

1943

Kurt Seligmann

(Swiss, 1900–1962)
Culture
Switzerland
Medium
etching and aquatint
Measurements
Sheet: 44.1 x 34.3 cm (17 3/8 x 13 1/2 in.); Platemark: 35.2 x 29.5 cm (13 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1999.95
Catalogue raisonné
Mason 116
State
III/III
Edition
c. 30 (the intended edition was 50)
Copyright
© Orange County Citizens Foundation / Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

In 1929 Seligmann settled in Paris and began to associate with Surrealist artists like Yves Tanguy, André Masson, and Max Ernst, who also made prints from the same portfolio, published in New York to benefit the journal VVV. This menacing figure recalls the tradition of mythological creatures and heraldic imagery in medieval and Renaissance art in Switzerland.

VVV Portfolio: Phantom of the Past

1943

Kurt Seligmann

(Swiss, 1900–1962)
Switzerland

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