Drypoint and engraving, 1965. 490x645 mm; 19 1/425 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 71/120 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Atelier LeBlanc et Cie, Paris. Published by Lublin, New York. A very good, dark impression.
Born of Lituanian Jewish parents, and raised in the South End of Boston, Levine (1915-2010) was already a well-regarded artist when he created the same-titled painting from which this print is derived, 1952-53, now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and considered among his chef d'oeuvre . A prodigious art student, Levine had worked as a painter in the Works Progress Administration (1935-40) and by the late 1930s/early 1940s was showing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prescott 30.
