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George Segal (1924-2000) Born in New York in 1924, Segal was one of the many sculptors enticed to work with the Stamperia d’Arte 2RC. An artist’s fascinated with the human form, he created limbs, torsos and full figures from stone and plaster. Trying to find a graphic equivalent to plaster casts, Valter and Eleonora Rossi offered to be the models with which to transfer impressions of their bodies onto the copper plates. Thus the Blue Jeans series was born, produced by using powdered resin, watered-down acids with which their jeans where drenched and a deliberately limited palette in order to created these ghostly images, who imply at once a physical presence and absence. The portraits of Walter and Helen III were realised a decade later, not in the familial environment experienced in Rome, but in a colder New Jersey studio. The versatility of Segal as an artist can be appreciated through these two drastically different series.

George Segal (1924-2000)

Three figures in red shirt, from: Blue Jeans

Details

George Segal (1924-2000)
Three figures in red shirt, from: Blue Jeans
etching and aquatint in colours
1975
Fabriano Rosaspina paper
signed, titled and dated in pencil, OK to print
edition size: 30 numbered impressions and 12 artist's proofs
published and printed by 2RC Edizioni d’Arte, Rome, with their blindstamp
Image: 980 x 1978 mm., Sheet: 1120 x 2140 mm.

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Further details

Please note that all works are offered unframed.
For the purpose of the exhibition, selected works have been framed by the publisher and these frames can be purchased together with the works. The frame is available to purchase for £70.

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