Metaphores and Metamorphoses
1967
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portfolio w/ 9 lithographs (stone and aluminum) plus title page and colophon on natural Nacre, Copperplate Deluxe and German Etching paper
Dimensions
sheet: 51 x 51.4 cm (20 1/16 x 20 1/4 in.) accessory size: 51.1 x 50.8 cm (20 1/8 x 20 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.845-853
About the Artist
Hedda Sterne
Hedda Sterne (1910–2011) was a Romanian-born American artist whose remarkably long career and restless artistic intelligence made her one of the most distinctive — and persistently underacknowledged — figures in twentieth-century American art. Born Hedwig Lindenberg in Bucharest, she studied in Vienna, Paris, and Bucharest, absorbing Surrealism and Constructivism before emigrating to New York in 1...