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20. Theodore Torre-Bueno (1914-1991) Death’s Arrival
Etching and aquatint, ca. 1940, 138 x 200 mm. Superb impression on pale blue wove paper with full margins, signed verso with initials and numbered recto apparently from an edition of 7. Sad to say, we have probably sold more prints and drawings by Theodore Torre-Bueno in the last twenty years than he sold in his lifetime. This is an unusually dark print for him; he generally had a clear and open sense of humor. Death climbs the stairs in an old house, preceded by puffs of smoke, headed, obviously, to the open door behind which one can just make out a bed and its occupant. It is a medieval tale, tellingly transported to modern times, and depicted with such conventional realism as to offer no artistic impediment to its meaning. |
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