Joyce Treiman (American, 1922-1991), Quotation Page Plate II from The Mirrored Couple, 1961
Joyce Treiman (American, 1922–1991) was an American painter and printmaker known for an independent form of figurative expressionism that combined close observation of the human figure with the immediacy of post-war drawing. Born in Evanston, Illinois, she earned her B.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1943, where she studied painting with Philip Guston. After establishing her career through exhibitions in Chicago and New York, Treiman moved to Pacific Palisades, California, in 1960 and became a distinctive presence within the Southern California art community. Although abstraction dominated much of the period, she remained committed to figurative art and developed crowded, theatrical compositions populated by lovers, artists and historical personalities, often including an image of herself. Her drawing could move freely between sharply observed anatomy and exaggerated caricature, giving her work a mixture of humor and psychological tension. At the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Treiman used lithography to carry the force of her drawing directly into print, building figures from urgent black marks that remain visibly worked and unsettled. She later taught at UCLA and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1990. Her work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, as well as the National Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Quotation Page, Plate II from The Mirrored Couple, 1961, is a lithograph from stone and zinc printed in black and red on cream Nacre paper by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. It is the second leaf in Treiman’s portfolio of fifteen lithographs, issued in an edition of 20 with additional proofs, including nine Tamarind impressions. A dark, roughly modeled male figure occupies the upper center, surrounded by scattered red marks that continue down the sheet around Treiman’s handwritten transcription of Blaise Pascal’s passage beginning, “What a chimera, then is man!” This impression is inscribed “Tamarind Imp.” in pencil at lower left and signed “Treiman” at lower right, with the Tamarind and printer’s blindstamps in the lower margin; “Tamarind Imp.” identifies one of the nine impressions retained for the workshop rather than a numbered example from the edition of 20. Sheet measures approximately 20.25 x 15.25 inches. The sheet appears generally clean, with deckled edges, light handling and a few faint scattered specks. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Joyce Treiman (American, 1922–1991) was an American painter and printmaker known for an independent form of figurative expressionism that combined close observation of the human figure with the immediacy of post-war drawing. Born in Evanston, Illinois, she earned her B.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1943, where she studied painting with Philip Guston. After establishing her career through exhibitions in Chicago and New York, Treiman moved to Pacific Palisades, California, in 1960 and became a distinctive presence within the Southern California art community. Although abstraction dominated much of the period, she remained committed to figurative art and developed crowded, theatrical compositions populated by lovers, artists and historical personalities, often including an image of herself. Her drawing could move freely between sharply observed anatomy and exaggerated caricature, giving her work a mixture of humor and psychological tension. At the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Treiman used lithography to carry the force of her drawing directly into print, building figures from urgent black marks that remain visibly worked and unsettled. She later taught at UCLA and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1990. Her work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, as well as the National Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Quotation Page, Plate II from The Mirrored Couple, 1961, is a lithograph from stone and zinc printed in black and red on cream Nacre paper by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. It is the second leaf in Treiman’s portfolio of fifteen lithographs, issued in an edition of 20 with additional proofs, including nine Tamarind impressions. A dark, roughly modeled male figure occupies the upper center, surrounded by scattered red marks that continue down the sheet around Treiman’s handwritten transcription of Blaise Pascal’s passage beginning, “What a chimera, then is man!” This impression is inscribed “Tamarind Imp.” in pencil at lower left and signed “Treiman” at lower right, with the Tamarind and printer’s blindstamps in the lower margin; “Tamarind Imp.” identifies one of the nine impressions retained for the workshop rather than a numbered example from the edition of 20. Sheet measures approximately 20.25 x 15.25 inches. The sheet appears generally clean, with deckled edges, light handling and a few faint scattered specks. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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10.25 x 15.25 in
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