Untitled (Two-Sided Monotype)

1949

Not on view

Here the same motif, a mechanomorphic creature assembled from a variety of nuts, bolts, screws, and tools, is rendered once on each side of a piece of paper using different techniques. On one side, the creature is surrounded by a halo of expressionistic black marks. On the other, it is starkly isolated against a more or less bare background. Early in her career, before immigrating to New York in 1941, Sterne had strong ties to the European Dada and Surrealist movements, especially through her family friend, Victor Brauner. Her debt to Dada and Surrealism is very much in evidence here.

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Title: Untitled (Two-Sided Monotype)
Artist: Hedda Sterne (American, Bucharest 1910–2011 New York, New York)
Date: 1949
Medium: Monotype (recto); chalk over graphite with red colored pencil on paper (verso)
Dimensions: 14 × 22 1/16 in. (35.5 × 56 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Clara Diament Sujo and Glenn Sujo, 2017
Object Number: 2017.172.2a, b
Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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