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Portfolio of five prints

Alan Glass Canadian
Publisher Pilar de Bordes Mexican
2017
Not on view
Alan Glass was a Surrealist sculptor, draftsman, painter and printmaker living in Mexico. In his graphic work, an alternate universe emerges as if glimpsed through the sinuous strands of a momentarily posed cigarette. Glass’s imagery conjures the eternal and the fleeting. Daces, animals, plants, and everyday objects can be discerned among the intertwined form. The artist encountered Surrealism while training in Paris, the movement’s epicenter, during the 1950s. The drypoints here relate stylistically to drawings that he produced in ballpoint pen since his days in Paris. These small, often ghostly, images are composed of intertwining figures, animals, and creatures some set in dreamlike landscapes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Portfolio of five prints
  • Artist: Alan Glass (Canadian, active Mexico,1932–2023 Mexico City)
  • Publisher: Pilar de Bordes
  • Printer: Germán Calzada
  • Date: 2017
  • Medium: Drypoint on 300 g cotton Hahnemühle paper in a black cloth portfolio
  • Dimensions: Each sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (32.8 × 24.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.212.1–.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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