Etching. Signed and dated in pencil 'Irene Aronson '56', inscribed with title and a copyright mark, and numbered '4/20'.
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| Title | L'Opéra
(assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching, printed in brown |
| Brief description | L'Opéra. Etching by Irene Aronson, 1956. |
| Physical description | Etching. Signed and dated in pencil 'Irene Aronson '56', inscribed with title and a copyright mark, and numbered '4/20'. |
| Dimensions | - Length: 37.47cm
- Height: 30.5cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO 1964 |
| Marks and inscriptions | - 'Irene Aronson '56' (Signed and dated in pencil)
- '4/20' (Inscribed with title and a copyright mark, and numbered)
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| Bibliographic references | - Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO, 1964
- The following excerpt is from the artist's biography by Christine Weyl, author of 'The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York', 2019:
'As a young child in Dresden, Aronson had been fascinated by opera and, not being able to sing herself, she became a stage designer, which was her primary occupation. In addition to teaching stage design and costuming at institutions such as City College of New York, Aronson created the costumes for the Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Broadway performance of Front Page. Joining Atelier 17 sometime in the early 1950s allowed Aronson to combine her interest in the visual arts with her passion for stage performance. Most of her intaglio prints have a theatrical or musical quality, such as her major portfolios, Danse Macabre (1951) and The Circus (1952), which earned her a solo show at the Weyhe Gallery in 1952. Aronson indicated that the former portfolio, from which the print Moon Night is a part, made reference to the nightmares and death she witnessed as a Jew in Nazi Germany'.
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