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Joseph Hecht, a Polish-born etcher and engraver active in France, was a co-founder of Atelier 17 in Paris, and an influential artist and teacher. His Leda and the Swan, probably made around 1925, takes place in an exotic garden of spiked palms and yuccas. Most machine-like in appearance, such plants appealed to Hecht's Modernist aesthetic. Here, Leda seems to feel almost abandoned by the swan, which ignores her.
Source: News, Jan Feb Mar 1916
DimensionsSheet: 13 1/4 × 10 in. (33.7 × 25.4 cm)
Plate: 9 1/2 × 7 in. (24.1 × 17.8 cm)
Plate: 9 1/2 × 7 in. (24.1 × 17.8 cm)
Accession Number 2015.47
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedJoseph Hecht (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions15:30 (l,l graphite); 53 (u,r graphite)
Catalogue raisonnéTonneau-Ryckelynck/Plumart 63
Edition15/30
