**Originally Listed At $300**

Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000). Monotype, 1992. Artist's signature, date, and "Monotype" handwritten in pencil beneath image. A haunting hand-colored monotype by legendary artist Leonard Baskin depicting a woman's head, her gaunt visage and cropped coiff rendered in hues of peach and pink, below a large expanse of empty space. Works like this example demonstrate how Baskin focused on the emotions and psychology of the human condition. In his words, "Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. Glorious in defining our universal sodality and glorious in defining our utter uniqueness. The human figure is the image of all men and one man. It contains all and can express all." Size (plate mark): 17.625" L x 11.75" W (44.8 cm x 29.8 cm) Size (frame): 27" L x 20.875" W (68.6 cm x 53 cm)

Leonard Baskin was a 20th century "Renaissance Man" - a highly respected sculptor, printmaker, writer, and watercolorist. His prints included mythological, classical, and biblical scenes as well as portraits and floral studies. Baskin studied at Yale University from 1941 to 1943 and received his B.A. at the New School for Social Research in 1949. He also founded Gehenna Press which specialized in fine book production and taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts as well as Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1953 until 1974. Baskin's artworks are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vatican Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Tate Gallery in London, and other elite institutions. "Angel of Death" has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art among others (accession numbers 1971.300, 1971.25, and 1961-157-4 respectively). His noted public sculptural commissions include pieces for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial as well as the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Baskin also received many prestigious honors, such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award. He was also honored with numerous retrospective exhibitions at institutions including the Smithsonian Museum, the Albertina Museum, and the Library of Congress.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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#175863

Artist's signature, date, and "Monotype" handwritten in pencil beneath image. Print is mounted in a custom matte and frame under glass. Artwork has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be in very nice condition save ink stains just outside plate mark. Watermark on paper at lower right margin. Fit with suspension wire. Frame has a few minor scuffs/chips to finish but is otherwise in good condition.