Sigmund Abeles - Deadly Dancers Commissioned for The Permanent Revolution by the filmmaker Manfried Kirchheimer

Deadly Dancers (Commissioned for 'The Permanent Revolution' by the filmmaker, Manfried Kirchheimer)

Sigmund Abeles original intaglio, Deadly Dancers owes its genesis to the filmmaker, Manfred Kirchheimer. The artist relates, "Deadly Dancers is a newer work and in a way was a commission. The step by step creation is the subject of a movie, The Permanent Revolution, by the filmmaker, Manfred Kirchheimer, which came out in 2012. My anti-Vietnam images are some of my more well known prints. That is why Manny found me. I had to update the living hell to our times. First, those suicide bombers reminded me too much of having the feared KKK burn a cross in my Mom's’ and my yard in the mid-50's" (Abeles lived most of his youth in North Carolina.) "“But today the Western world is up against crazed killers who are dying to die, themselves. Barbaric madness! This is the only print of mine done from ‘on line’ images." * The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, includes an of Deadly Dancers in its permanent collection (object number 2010.27). An original aquatint, hard and soft ground etching and drypoint, Deadly Dancers was printed in 2008 by Kathy Caraccio in New York City. This is signed, titled, and numbered, '16/25' by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. It is a striking, original example of the revolutionary art created by the American artist, Sigmund Abeles.

Original Aquatint, Hard and Soft Ground Etching & Drypoint by the American artist, Sigmund Abeles.

Deadly Dancers (Commissioned for 'The Permanent Revolution' by the filmmaker, Manfried Kirchheimer)

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Abeles, Sigmund (New York, born, 1934)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01.-		Afternoon Light (Figure Study of the Sculptor and Photographer, Anne Merck) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Lithograph	1978	Signed, "Abeles", & inscribed, "A. P." (Artist Proof) in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. Printed by Paul Macguire, Lakeside Studio, Lakeside Michigan.
02.-		B. G. Seated (Assistant at the Ahmherst Workshop) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Engraving with Plate Tone	1981	Signed & titled, "Abeles", "B. G. Seated", & inscribed "artist proof" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. And, bearing the text, "Nude Seated on Floor" on the back of the print. Printed by Robert Townsend, Amherst, Massachusetts.
03.-		Carl's Angus Cow (A Prize Winning Angus) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Lithograph (Rare)	1979	Signed, "Abeles", & inscribed "artist proof" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. And,bearing the text, "Carl's low" on back of print. Printed by Paul Macguire, Lakeside Studio, Lakeside Michigan.
04.-		Cock of The Roost by Sigmund Abeles	Original Drypoint Engraving	1981	Signed and numbered "Abeles", "168/250"' by Sigmund Abeles in pencil, and signed within the plate, 'Abeles 01'. Published by the Associated American Artists, New York.	Sold
05.-		Curled Up (Figure Study of a Woman) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1981	Signed, "Abeles", & inscribed "proof" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. Printed by Robert Townsend, Amherst, Massachusetts.
06.-		Deadly Dancers (Commissioned for ‘The Permanent Revolution’ by the filmmaker, Manfried Kirchheimer) by Sigmund Abeles	Aquatint, Etching, Soft Ground, & Drypoint (Intaglio)	2008	Signed, titled, & numbered, "S. Abeles", "Deadly Dancers", "16/25" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. Printed by Kathy Caraccio, NYC
07.-		Female Figure Standing with Fist at Back by Sigmund Abeles	Original Charcoal Pencil Drawing	2016	Signed, "Abeles", and dated "2016" in lower margin. Inscribed, "Female Figure Standing with Fist at Back", "2016" in pencil by the artist in lower right margin.
08.-		Janus Headed Man (Two Seated Figures Facing in Opposite Directions), with a 2nd Figure Study of Woman (on Back of Paper), both drawings by Sigmund Abeles	Original Charcoal Drawing with a 2nd Original Pencil Drawing (Back of Paper)	2014	Signed, "Abeles", titled, "2. Janus headed Man, and dated "2014" lower right corner. Also Inscribed, "Janus Headed man " "2014", & "charcoal" to the right of a second drawing, a figure study of a sleeping woman on the back of the paper.
09.-		Max / Shabbat (The Artist's Son, Maxwell Merck Abeles and his mother, Anne Merck-Abeles on Sabbath) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Drypoint on Chine Colle	1993	Signed and numbered "Abeles", "4/30" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in the lower margin, and published by the artist.
10.-		Max, ‘Max's Laugh, Max-Gelding's Laugh, Gelding's Laugh’ (My Horse, Max's Laugh) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Engraving & Etching	1971	Signed, titled, & numbered, "Abeles", "Max", "5/20" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles below the image. Also titled in pencil by him "Max's Laugh, Max-Gelding's Laugh, Gelding's Laugh" in lower right margin, and bearing the text, "Gelding" on the back of the print. Published by the artist.
11.-		My Rolling Mare, ‘Sayida’ (Study of the Artist's Horse) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Drypoint in Mauve Ink	1981	Signed, "S. Abeles", & inscribed "artist proof" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. Printed by Robert Townsend, s Workshop Boston, Ma..
12.-		Pietrasanta Carver (Portrait of the Sculptor & Photographer, Anne Merck) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Lithograph	1977	Signed, "S. Abeles", titled, "Pietrasanta Carver", & inscribed, "artist proof" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. Printed by Paul Macguire, Lakeside Studio, Lakeside Michigan.
13.-		Portrait of a Young Woman (Margo Lillian Jefferson) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Drypoint Engraving	1969	Signed and numbered, "S. Abeles", "20/250" by Sigmund Abeles in pencil. Published by the Associated American Artists, New York	Sold
14.-		Red Haired (Seated Figure Study) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Graphite Drawing	April, 25, 2014	Signed, "S Abeles", "CA NYC" (Century Association, New York City), and dated "4.25.2014" in lower margin. Titled, "Red-Haired" in upper left corner. Also Inscribed, "Red-Haired" "4.25.2014", & "Pencil" on back of paper.
15.-		Seated Lady with folded Fingers (Figure Study) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Pencil Drawing	October, 1, 2015	Signed, "Abeles", and dated "1.10.2015" under the image. Also Inscribed, "Seated Lady with folded Fingers" in pencil on back of paper.
16.-		Self Portrait Shaved (Portrait of the Artist, Sigmund Abeles) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Lithograph	1978	Signed, "Abeles", & numbered, "1/10" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. And, bearing the title, "Self Portrait" on the back of the print. Printed by Paul Macguire, Lakeside Studio, Lakeside Michigan.
17.-		The Artist's Mother The Artist's Mother (Henrietta Banner Abeles) by Sigmund Abeles	Original Etching and Aquatint	1966	Signed, titled, & numbered, "Abeles", "The Artist's Mother", "10/30" in pencil by Sigmund Abeles in lower right margin. And bearing the text, "The Artist's Mother" on the back of the print. Published by Ferdinand Rodent, Maryland.
18.-		Widowed Eve by Sigmund Abeles	Original Etching and Aquatint	1964	Signed, titled, & inscribed, "Abeles", "Widowed Eve", "artist proof" in pencil by the artist in lower right margin. Published and printed by Sigmund Abeles.

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Title:	Deadly Dancers (Commissioned for 'The Permanent Revolution' by the filmmaker, Manfried Kirchheimer)
Artist:	Abeles, Sigmund (New York, born, 1934)
Date:	2008
Medium:	Original Aquatint, Hard and Soft Ground Etching & Drypoint (Intaglio)
Printer:	Kathy Caraccio, New York City
Edition:	Limited Edition of 25 s, numbered, '16/25'
Note:	Sigmund Abeles: One of the most honoured figurative artists of our time, Sigmund Abeles began his formal art education in 1952 at the Pratt Institute, New York. Two years later he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York and studied under Reginald Marsh, Harry Sternberg and Morris Kantor. As well, in 1955, Abeles received a scholarship to study at the Showhegan School in Maine, working under Isabel Bishop and Edwin Dickenson. A second scholarship in 1956 sent him to the Brooklyn Museum School to analyse printmaking techniques. He also received his BA in painting from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University
	Sigmund Abeles was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1957. After refusing to answer questions concerning some of the more liberal artists with which he had associated Abeles found himself classified as a security risk. (This was, after all, the incomprehensible, potential Communist under every bed, decade of McCarthyism.) Nevertheless, the Army employed Abeles as a technical illustrator and even assigned him top secret clearance. The artist worked for the Army in France, Czechoslovakia and Germany and describes his time there as "living Dr. Strangelove." **
	During his career, Abeles has been active as an original printmaker, painter, sculptor and as a teaching professor. In this latter category he has taught at the Swain School of Design, New Bedford (1961-64), Wellesley College (1964-67) and at Boston University School of Fine Arts, Boston (1969). Sigmund Abeles began teaching at the University of New Hampshire in 1970. He became a full professor there in 1979 and retired in 1987.
	As a sculptor, Sigmund Abeles has also achieved international acclaim, and like his paintings, drawings, and graphic art, a large body of his work in this medium consists of figure studies and portraits. Such works include, Gazing Upward (c. 1963), Expectant Sleeper (1965), Reclining Reader (1967), Caryatid Figure (1975), and many others. In 2007, the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum held the exhibition, From Whence I’ve Come featuring paintings, prints drawings, pastels and sculptures created by the artist from 1951 to 2007. Abele's pensive sculpture of a young girl in bronze, Kaethe, Age Nine, (1968), can be viewed at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
	Sigmund Abeles’s engravings, lithographs, pastel drawings and paintings are currently found in such major collections as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the San Diego Museum of Art, Yale University, The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Worcester Art Museum and the Honolulu Academy of Art, as well as other important public and private collections. The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, includes an of Deadly Dancers in its permanent collection (object number 2010.27).
	Solo exhibitions of Sigmund Abeles's art have been held at Bowdoin College, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska, the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, the Visual Arts Gallery at the State University of New York and at the Culture Center, New York City. Abeles has also participated in countless group exhibitions held throughout the United States, England, and Holland. A selection of these events include, American Printmakers, Rijksacademie, Amsterdam (1968), American Contemporary Prints, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1970), Living American Artists & The Figure, Penn, State U. Museum of Art, Univ. Park PA. (1976), The Art of Aging, Artists from Israel, England and North America, Hebrew Union College, NYC (2004), An Artist's Eye: A Journey through Modern and Contemporary Art with Sigmund Abeles, held consecutively with Figuratively Speaking, The Art of Sigmund Abeles, by the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, (2011). These two exhibits will be featured at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC (2016).
	Among the many professional honours received, Sigmund Abeles was honored with the Arts and Letters Award and grant from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters for "etchings that pierce the comforting screen and reveal man in all his naked helplessness." (1965). He was elected a National Academician of the National Academy of Design, NY in 1977, Honorary Doctorate of Arts Degree and commencement speaker, Coastal Carolina University in 2000, and the Hall of Fame Honoree, Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club in 2004.
	Many scholars have tried to find a definition for the compelling art of Sigmund Abeles. Perhaps the most appropriate words come from the artist himself: "I'm a figurative artist - but not in a straight representational way. My work has an expressionist quality with psychological overtones; it might be called ‘expressive realism’ or ‘psychological realism’. When I look at a figure, I don’t see just form - I see who the person is and what the person is feeling.” He has also stated, “ People often quote me on something I wrote about Degas. ‘He kept looking when most people look away.’ When I look, I constantly seek for a corner to start peeling back the surface layers." ***
	Deadly Dancers: Sigmund Abeles original original aquatint, hard and soft ground etching & drypoint, Deadly Dancers owes its genesis to the filmmaker, Manfred Kirchheimer (B. 1931), who produced the feature length documentary entitled, The Permanent Revolution which premiered at the Quad Theater, NYC, 2012. The film focuses on the various methods of printmaking and the history of the art of protest, activism, and social movements in prints. Sigmund Abeles relates, "Deadly Dancers is a newer work and in a way was a commission. The step by step creation is the subject of a movie, The Permanent Revolution, by the filmmaker, Manfred Kirchheimer, which came out in 2012. My anti-Vietnam images are some of my more well known prints. That is why Manny found me. I had to update the living hell to our times. First, those suicide bombers reminded me too much of having the feared KKK burn a cross in my Mom's’ and my yard in the mid-50's" (Abeles lived most of his youth in North Carolina.) "“But today the Western world is up against crazed killers who are dying to die, themselves. Barbaric madness! This is the only print of mine done from ‘on line’ images." * Deadly Dancers was created by Sigmund abeles, and printed by Kathy Caraccio, New York City in 2008. This is signed, 'S. Abeles', titled, 'Deadly Dancers', and numbered, ‘16/25’ by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. The image depicts five masked men; the one in front is dressed in black and is holding a large heavy weapon, while the four men behind him are wearing white and carry explosives around their waste.
	* Comments by Sigmund Abeles to Art of the Print, August. 2016.
	** David S Andrew, Sigmund Abeles: A Retrospective, Durham, University of New Hampshire, 1988.
	*** Sigmund Abeles: Expressive Realist Painter & Printmaker, Biddington’s, New York, http://www. biddingtons. com.
Size:	11 3/4 x 8 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $475.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon pure rag paper and with full, deckled margins as printed by Kathy Caraccio, New York City in 2008. Signed, titled and numbered, ‘16/25’ by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. This is a deeply printed, rich and is in excellent condition throughout. Deadly Dancers represents a brilliant, original example of the etched art of Sigmund Abeles.
Subject	Sigmund Abeles, Deadly Dancers, original Aquatint, Hard and Soft Ground Etching and Drypoint (intaglio), Kathy Caraccio, New York City, Manfred Kirchheimer, documentary, history of the art of protest, activism, and social movements in prints, crazed killers, KKK, Vietnam, Showhegan School, Isabel Bishop.
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