Terry Haass, Piste des Caravanes, Circa 1965

Description

Artist: Terry Haas (Haass) (Czech, born 1923)
Title: Piste Des Caravannes
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: … more Artist: Terry Haas (Haass) (Czech, born 1923)
Title: Piste Des Caravannes
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Numbered 32/50 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Size image: 26.5 x 20.25 inches
Size paper: 22.25 x 30 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: Excellent, has never been framed

About the artist.

Tereza (Terry) Haass, printmaker, painter, and sculptor, was born in Cesky Tesin, Czechoslovakia on November 17, 1923. She fled her native country and Nazism in the late 1930s, relocating to France. In Paris, she studied art and art history until she was once again displaced by war. In 1941, she moved to New York and received a scholarship to the Art Students’ League where she studied with Will Barnet. Haass began working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental workshop, Atelier 17, in 1946 and she directed the workshop in 1950 when Hayter returned to Paris. In 1951, Haass received a Wooley scholarship to study printmaking and a Fulbright Travel Grant that allowed her to visit Norway. She eventually settled in Paris where she worked at Atelier Lacourière & Frélaut. She studied at the school of the Louvre for many years. Her work is represented in major public collections including the Guggenheim Museum, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, the Carnegie Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bibliothéque nationale de France, and the Israel National Museum.
There is a large collection of her works in the permanent collection of the Olomouc Museum of Art in Olomouc, Czech Rekpublic. In 2006 the museum organized an extensive retrospective by Haass titled "Light - Space - Time." The exhibition offered a profile of her work from the 1940s to the present. She exhibited her graphic works, paintings, sculptures and costume designs.
Terry Haass died in Paris on March 1, 2016. less