Robert Hansen (American, 1924-2013), Mama Mudra, 1970 Color Lithograph
Robert Hansen (American, 1924–2013) was a Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator whose work transformed the human body into fragmented arrangements of heads, limbs, eyes, and masklike shapes. Born in Osceola, Nebraska, Hansen studied at the University of Nebraska and later taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His long-running Man-Men series was executed in industrial lacquer and enamel on rigid panels as well as in lithography, maintaining references to the figure while pushing its parts toward organic abstraction. Hansen worked with the Tamarind Lithography Workshop during the mid-1960s, producing individual Man-Men prints and the illustrated book Selections from Satan’s Saint. His work was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1962 exhibition Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure and is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Mama Mudra, 1970, color lithograph from stone and zinc in two red inks and blue on white Arches paper. A saturated red field contains rounded, body-like forms printed in white reserve, crimson, violet, and blue, with four compact figurative vignettes arranged along the lower edge. Printed by Eugene Sturman and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in an edition of 16, with nine additional Tamarind impressions. Inscribed in graphite along the lower margin “Tamarind impression,” titled “mama mudra,” signed “R Hansen,” and dated “1970,” with the Tamarind and Sturman blindstamps at lower left. “Tamarind impression” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 30 x 22.25 inches. The sheet shows light toning with minor handling and old tape remnants along the upper verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Robert Hansen (American, 1924–2013) was a Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator whose work transformed the human body into fragmented arrangements of heads, limbs, eyes, and masklike shapes. Born in Osceola, Nebraska, Hansen studied at the University of Nebraska and later taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His long-running Man-Men series was executed in industrial lacquer and enamel on rigid panels as well as in lithography, maintaining references to the figure while pushing its parts toward organic abstraction. Hansen worked with the Tamarind Lithography Workshop during the mid-1960s, producing individual Man-Men prints and the illustrated book Selections from Satan’s Saint. His work was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1962 exhibition Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure and is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Mama Mudra, 1970, color lithograph from stone and zinc in two red inks and blue on white Arches paper. A saturated red field contains rounded, body-like forms printed in white reserve, crimson, violet, and blue, with four compact figurative vignettes arranged along the lower edge. Printed by Eugene Sturman and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in an edition of 16, with nine additional Tamarind impressions. Inscribed in graphite along the lower margin “Tamarind impression,” titled “mama mudra,” signed “R Hansen,” and dated “1970,” with the Tamarind and Sturman blindstamps at lower left. “Tamarind impression” identifies an impression retained by the workshop outside the numbered edition. Sheet measures approximately 30 x 22.25 inches. The sheet shows light toning with minor handling and old tape remnants along the upper verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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30 x 22.25 in
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