Art + Antiques: Featuring The Birger Sandzen Collection
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 01:00AM EST
Lot 29
Birger Sandzen 'Sentinel Pines' Pencil-Signed Woodcut
Sold for
$400
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $5,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
| $75,000 | $5,000 |
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Birger Sandzen
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Sentinel Pines, 1919
Nailhead woodcut on paper
One edition
12 3/16" x 17 7/8"
A pencil-signed and titled nailcut woodblock print depicting dramatic pine trees against a cloudy sky. In a simple black frame that measures 13" x 15".
"His technique on the wood is curiously interesting, for he appears to use some sort of roulette to flick out the wood in curved series of dots until the picture takes shape with an atmospheric impression. The River Nocturne has been personally felt as it is expressed with a new strangeness. This is typical of Mr. Sandzen's expression but there are fresh motifs in Sentinel Pines." (Malcolm Salaman in The New Woodcut, 1930, as detailed in Lindquist)
"In the wood engravings one especially feels the art of the designer. As composer uses little themes in a variety of ways, the designer uses simple lines and masses, repeating, inverting, balancing them, achieving results that are fresh, new and beautiful... His Sentinel Pines, outposts of tree growth, stand alone on a high rolling plateau, gnarly trunks and branches strongly expressed, foliage masses and open spaces, forming patterns against the billowing clouds." (Elisabeth Jane Merrill in The Art of Birger Sandzen, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, W - 31
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Not removed from the frame. Some even overall toning to the sheet inside the mat sight. Otherwise, the sheet appears very clean.
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Sentinel Pines, 1919
Nailhead woodcut on paper
One edition
12 3/16" x 17 7/8"
A pencil-signed and titled nailcut woodblock print depicting dramatic pine trees against a cloudy sky. In a simple black frame that measures 13" x 15".
"His technique on the wood is curiously interesting, for he appears to use some sort of roulette to flick out the wood in curved series of dots until the picture takes shape with an atmospheric impression. The River Nocturne has been personally felt as it is expressed with a new strangeness. This is typical of Mr. Sandzen's expression but there are fresh motifs in Sentinel Pines." (Malcolm Salaman in The New Woodcut, 1930, as detailed in Lindquist)
"In the wood engravings one especially feels the art of the designer. As composer uses little themes in a variety of ways, the designer uses simple lines and masses, repeating, inverting, balancing them, achieving results that are fresh, new and beautiful... His Sentinel Pines, outposts of tree growth, stand alone on a high rolling plateau, gnarly trunks and branches strongly expressed, foliage masses and open spaces, forming patterns against the billowing clouds." (Elisabeth Jane Merrill in The Art of Birger Sandzen, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, W - 31
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Condition
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