Ben Gurion
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1961
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Variant Date: 1962.
Medium: Woodcut.
Print Image Size: 18 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches.
Print Edition: 40 (with 4 artist's proofs).
Alternate Medium: Woodcut.
Ink(s): brownish-black.
Support: laid paper.
Portrait of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion with sympathetic eyes, whose head and collar are almost completely carved with very little of the jaw or hair line remaining. First-state proofs [CMA 2013.057.007] depict him with a severely bulbous head and swollen eyes, printed in black and gold ink on laid paper. The block dimensions were altered for a second-state proof [CMA 2013.057.008] which features a different head shape as well as more carving in the cheek and neck. The artist presented one impression to the statesman through an intermediary and subsequently received a grateful acknowledgement from the State of Israel. An alternate woodcut exists in a different format, with Ben Gurion facing forward.
Medium: Woodcut.
Print Image Size: 18 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches.
Print Edition: 40 (with 4 artist's proofs).
Alternate Medium: Woodcut.
Ink(s): brownish-black.
Support: laid paper.
Portrait of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion with sympathetic eyes, whose head and collar are almost completely carved with very little of the jaw or hair line remaining. First-state proofs [CMA 2013.057.007] depict him with a severely bulbous head and swollen eyes, printed in black and gold ink on laid paper. The block dimensions were altered for a second-state proof [CMA 2013.057.008] which features a different head shape as well as more carving in the cheek and neck. The artist presented one impression to the statesman through an intermediary and subsequently received a grateful acknowledgement from the State of Israel. An alternate woodcut exists in a different format, with Ben Gurion facing forward.