Jorge Castillo ORIGINAL Aquatint Etching Yerma Sings for a Baby HAND SIGNED COA$1,474.00
Jorge Castillo ORIGINAL Aquatint Etching Yerma Sings for a Baby HAND SIGNED COA
$1,474.00
Artist: Jorge Castillo (Jorge José Castillo Casalderrey) (Spanish, b. 1933)
Title: Yerma, Act 3 (Yerma,3.Akt)
Medium: Original aquatint etching Arches paper.
Signature: Hand signed lower right and numbered left III/X
Publisher: Propyläen
Printer: Wilhelm Schneider, Berlin
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Sheet size 22 3/8 x 30 inches. Image size 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches.
Yerma is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. García Lorca describes the play as “a tragic poem.” The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime.
Jorge Castillo a Spanish-born cubist/surrealist painter and sculptor. His full name is Jorge José Castillo Casalderrey. For most of his childhood, he and his family lived in Argentina. Since 1962, he has maintained residences in both Barcelona and New York City. Castillo greatly admired Pablo Picasso, and that influence shows in his paintings, etchings, and lithographs.His steel sculpture “Homage to the Cyclist” stands in the Plaça de Sants in Barcelona.
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