Robert Hansen (American, 1924-2013), Man-Men 162, 1965 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.
Man-Men 162, 1965, lithograph from aluminum printed in black on buff Arches paper, printed by Kenneth Tyler and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. A tall, loosely assembled humanoid rises through the otherwise open sheet, its torso crowded with overlapping faces, eyes, limbs, cellular shapes, and vessel-like forms that narrow into two long segmented legs. Inscribed in graphite “Man-Men 162” at lower left, “Tamarind Impression” at lower center, and signed and dated “R Hansen 1965” at lower right; bearing the Tamarind and Kenneth Tyler blindstamps in the lower margin. From an artist’s edition of twenty with nine additional Tamarind impressions. “Tamarind Impression” identifies this as a workshop impression outside the numbered artist’s edition. Sheet measures approximately 21.5 × 14.5 inches. Two old mounting hinges remain at the upper verso, with a few tiny scattered specks and minor handling wear; 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.
Man-Men 162, 1965, lithograph from aluminum printed in black on buff Arches paper, printed by Kenneth Tyler and published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. A tall, loosely assembled humanoid rises through the otherwise open sheet, its torso crowded with overlapping faces, eyes, limbs, cellular shapes, and vessel-like forms that narrow into two long segmented legs. Inscribed in graphite “Man-Men 162” at lower left, “Tamarind Impression” at lower center, and signed and dated “R Hansen 1965” at lower right; bearing the Tamarind and Kenneth Tyler blindstamps in the lower margin. From an artist’s edition of twenty with nine additional Tamarind impressions. “Tamarind Impression” identifies this as a workshop impression outside the numbered artist’s edition. Sheet measures approximately 21.5 × 14.5 inches. Two old mounting hinges remain at the upper verso, with a few tiny scattered specks and minor handling wear; image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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21.5 x 14.5 in
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