Gustave Baumann
(German-American, 1881 - 1971)
Hidden Meaning - Block and Print, 1962

Hidden Meaning - Original Woodcut Block
inscribed: CANCELLED / [hand-in-heart chop]inscribed verso: #150 HIDDEN MEANING (GREY)
12 3/4 x 12 in. (32.39 x 30.48 cm.)Frame: 14 1/8 x 13 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (35.88 x 33.97 x 2.86 cm.)
Hidden Meaning, 1962
color woodcut, edition 3 of 100
signed lower right: Gustave [hand-in-heart chop] Baumann
titled lower left: HIDDEN MEANING
editioned and dated lower right: 3 - 100 - 62
12 x 12 7/8 in. (30.48 x 32.70 cm.)Frame: 21 x 21 x 1 1/4 in. (53.34 x 53.34 x 3.18 cm.)
According to his daughter Ann, Baumann remarked that this image would appeal only to his psychiatrist friends. Hidden Meaning was the last editioned color woodcut that Gustave Baumann produced. (Chamberlain, p. 452)
Provenance:Private Collection, New Mexico
Literature:Baumann Inventory No. 150Gala Chamberlain, Nancy E. Green, and Thomas Leech, In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann: A Catalogue Raisonné, Rizzoli Electa, 2019, No. 190.

The print is in overall excellent condition. Framed under acrylic. Frame in very good condition.
The block is in overall very good condition, consistent with use.

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