Produced by the artist at Simca Print Artists, 1984
46 layer screenprint on Arches Cover white paper
Print size: 76.2 x 106.68 cm | 30 x 42 in
Frame size: 113 x 81 x 5 cm | 45 x 33 x 2 in
Edition of 90
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist in graphite
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About the artwork:
Three screenprints that Graves completed at Simca Print Artists in New York over a period of six months reveal the evolution of the artist's work and a new direction for her printmaking. The first, 5745 was commissioned as a benefit for the Jewish Museum, New York. Graves visually quoted from two objects in the museum's collection: a second-century Roman terracotta votive offering in the form of a woman's head crowned with a wreath, seen in the print at upper left, and a fragment of a fourth-fifth century Byzantine mosaic of a dove, seen at lower right.
She also included an array of organic motifs reminiscent of those in her direct-cast bronze sculptures. Graves reinterpreted the composition in Six Frogs. With this series, the artist began to use the sequential process of print-making – numerous screens, creating overlapping layers of color and form, to manipulate the ease which with the viewer is able to discern the fragmented images buried in her prints.