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Seated Woman in Chemise 1965
| Medium: | Lithograph on Rives BFK paper |
| Sheet size: | 27 x 21 inches (68.6 x 53.3 cm) |
| Printer: | Joseph Zirker |
| Publisher: | Original Press, San Franciasco |
| Edition: | 100 with proofs |
| Edition Number: | AP 51/100 |
| Signed: | In pencil lower right "RD 65" |
$12,000
Seated Nude, Black Background 1961
Oil on canvas
Drawn with the vigorous authority of his painted figure seated on a director's chair in Seated Nude, Black Background from four years earlier, this printed drawing is a master class in offhand, virtuosic control.
Joe Zirker, printmaker, painter, and educator only two years younger than Diebenkorn, founded Original Press in Menlo Park, California in 1965 and enlisted Diebenkorn, who lived nearby in Berkeley, to draw several original lithographs.
Diebenkorn drew this one on transfer paper with aggressive, pressurized
strokes that slide around the contours recklessly yet with utter confidence.
The figure has the visage of Northwest Coast totems.