"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR On thick cream wove paper

On thick cream wove paper

(60 plus 12 proofs) in the 2nd

rich impression with substantial burr from the drypoint work

With the original descriptive label

"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR On thick cream wove paperca. 1949 50, Ink and Crayon Resist, 11 x 12 7 8, signed in pencil verso, on stiff crream wove paper. This early piece, with it's dark, subterranean ground, earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms, relates strongly to Barrer's other mature paintings. As she embraced, personalized, then transcended Indian Space concerns for all over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form, Barrer infused her own hybred imagery with elements of