Sting ray
1970
- Medium
- lithograph
- Measurements
- 135.0 × 93.4 cm (sheet)
- Edition
- printer's proof; edition 48
- Accession Number
- P120-1984
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© Willem de Kooning/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning was enticed to work in the lithographic medium by the printers Fred Genis and Irwin Hollander of Hollander Workshop in New York City. De Kooning initially found the complexity of the lithographic process off-putting and an impediment to the spontaneity and vitality of his images. A more sympathetic way of working was subsequently devised so the artist could make his images directly onto transfer paper, which the printers subsequently transferred onto the printing plate. In the year from June 1970, de Kooning produced twenty-four lithographs that are remarkable for introducing the large painterly gestures and spontaneous mark-making of his paintings into the print medium.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Animals
- Subjects (specific)
- black (colour) brush strokes gesture drawing (technique) linearity (form concept) ray (species) wash (material)
- Movements
- Abstract Expressionism Action painting