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PERLE FINE Two prints.
Descent, lithograph. 395x285 mm; 155/8x111/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled and numbered 2/20 in pencil, lower margin. Tape remains at corners recto, well outside the image * Calm After the Storm, aquatint and etching. 198x150 mm; 77/8x6 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 12/30 in pencil, lower margin. Both very good impressions.
After studying with Hans Hoffman in New York, Fine (1905-1988) befriended Hilla Rebay of the Guggenheim Foundation. At the Guggenheim Museum, Fine met Jackson Pollock, who was working as a guard, and she became one of the earliest supporters of his style of painting. These early, scarce prints show her interest in various New York Abstract Expressionists, including Pollock, Willem de Kooning (for the lithograph) and Franz Kline.
