Accession Number
1968/1.118

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Kurt Seligmann

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1942

Medium & Support
color lithograph on paper

Dimensions
5 11/16 in x 5 1/16 in (14.45 cm x 12.86 cm)

Credit Line
Bequest of Florence L. Stol

Label copy
Seligmann always professed a keen interest in magic. Magic, as well as other associations with his childhood in Basel, figure prominently in Seligmann’s work. One of those memories is of his father’s puppet entertainments; the head in this print may well recall those puppet shows from his youth as well as large masks in Carnival processions. This small lithograph also exists in an etched version. Neither version was printed as an edition; instead, they were used as holiday cards, this print usually carrying the inscription "Seasons greetings - A & K Seligmann - 1942/43."
Florence Stol was a collector of contemporary art in New York who became friends with Seligmann; another work by Seligmann in the present exhibition, Sea Fantasy, contains a note to Mrs. Stol.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Surrealism
abstraction
modern and contemporary art