''The Blind Man'', signed in pencil in the margin: Beatrice Wood, numbered in pencil in the margin: AE 34, lithograph on paper under Plexiglas, paper size: 29.5'' H x 22'' W, est: $700/1000
Note: Beatrice Wood was one of America's best known ceramicists and was involved in the New York Dada movement early in her career. Wood first met Marcel Duchamp in 1916 and the two artists, along with writer Henri-Pierre Roche, created the magazine ''The Blind Man'', one of the earliest manifestations of the Dada movement in the United States. Duchamp encouraged Wood to draw and her ''career as an artist of note began when she created an abstraction to tease Duchamp that anyone could create modern art. Duchamp was impressed by the work, arranging to have it published in a magazine and inviting her to work in his studio. It was here that she developed her style of spontaneous sketching and painting that continued throughout her life'' (www.beatricewood.com/biography.html, p. 1). The present work's gestural and spontaneous figure of The Blind Man is rendered in white with a bold pink background.
Image size: 23.5'' x 15.75''. Provenance: Estate, Los Angeles, CA

Visual: Generally good condition. Toning to the paper. Framed floating and hinged to the back mat. The left and right edges are deckled.