Artist: Barry Cleavin (1939-)
Title: First state – Study for Transplant V
Date: 1968
School: New Zealand
Medium: etching with drypoint and plate tone
Dimensions: 175 x 166mm (plate), 293 x 230mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: on the support in graphite lower left to lower right <<First state – Study for Transplant V………….Cleavin 68>>
Condition: beautiful condition printed on thick oatmeal paper, framed and glazed
Description: a woman’s torso viewed from the front. An early work by one of New Zealand’s leading printmakers. Cleavin is channelling early Italian printmakers of the 15th century.
Reference: Melinda Johnston and T.L. Rodney Wilson, Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin, Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2013, not illus.
Barry Cleavin
First state – Study for Transplant V
1968
$1,200.00
An early work by one of New Zealand’s leading printmakers. Cleavin is channelling early Italian printmakers of the 15th century
