Current Inventory by Letterio Calapai

11:45 P.M.

Artist: Letterio Calapai

LETTERIO CALAPAI (1901-1993) 11:45 P.M., etching, engraving and aquatint, 1947. 500×301 mm; 19×11⅞ inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 2/35 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression. Among Calapai’s best known images, the title (11:45 P.M.), composition, and subject matter suggest this is a portrait of Times Square, New York, on New Year’s Eve, just before midnight. Between 1935 and 1943, Calapai completed works for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. From 1946 to 1949 he worked at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17; he then established a printmaking department at the University of Buffalo where he […]

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Eight-Thirty Express

Artist: Letterio Calapai

Letterio Calapai (1902-1993), Eight-Thirty Express, wood engraving, 1943, signed and dated ’43 lower right, titled and inscribed trial proof 3 bottom left in pencil [with the monogram lower in the plate lower left]; an edition of 27 was printed. In very good condition, on laid paper, 5 3/16 x 8 1/2, the sheet 10 x 12 7/8 inches. Archival mounting. A fine impression of this modernist American icon, among the most aesthetically compelling of Calapai’s compositions. Calapai experimented with different papers, and on this impression he has written: “On Casinensis ivory laid – Made in Italy”. The paper has an elaborate two-headed snake watermark. […]

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