Krishna Reddy, Three Graces, color viscosity intaglio, edition 80 – artist's proof apart from the edition, 1953. Signed, titled and annotated Epreuve d’Artiste in pencil.
Image size 9 3/8 x 19 5/16 inches (238 x 491 mm); sheet size 11 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (295 x 540 mm).
A superb, richly-inked, deeply textured impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (3/4 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.
Literature and Exhibitions:
– Krishna Reddy, A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Nov. 5 1981 - Feb. 28, 1982.
– INDIA: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, 7 April - 31 July 2002, p. 98.
– Krishna's Cosmos: The Creativity of an Artist, Sculptor & Teacher, R. Sengupta, Grantha Corporation, 2003, p. 93.
– Prof. Krishna Reddy Retrospective Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, January 2014.
– Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6 October 2016 - 26 March 2017.
Collections: British Museum (London), National Gallery of Canada (plate), Tate Modern (London).
“I learned the way different tools move on the metal plate. I worked a great deal with the burin and the gouge. I became conscious of the energy of the lines. I made a series of spirals that open up and weave into three graceful shapes.”
—Krishna Reddy, Krishna Reddy, A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1981.
