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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Perth
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- Date
- 1953
- Media category
- Materials used
- wood engraving, printed in black ink on white tissue
- Edition
- 3/25
- Dimensions
- 17.4 x 23.9 cm blockmark
- Signature & date
Signed, incised in block to print l.r. corner, "R".
Signed l.r., pencil "Vaclovas Ratas".
Dated l.l., pencil "... 1953".- Credit
- Gift of June Morley 2006
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 17.2006
- Copyright
- © Estate of Vaclovas Ratas
- Artist information
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Vaclovas Ratas
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About
Vaclovas Ratus (Rataiskis) was born in Paliepsis, Lithuania. After graduation from the Kaunas School of Art in 1935, he studied in Italy. He was curator at the M K Ciurlionis Gallery, Kaunas 1937-44, and from 1945-49 established an art school in Augsburg, Germany. His wood engravings were used to illustrate books in Lithuania and Germany.
He emigrated to Australia as a displaced person in 1949, arriving in Perth and moved to Sydney in 1954. He was a foundation member of the Sydney Printmakers with Eva Kubbos, Henry Salkauskas and critic Laurie Thomas, and a member of the Contemporary Art Society. His work grew more experimental over these years - for example, in 1959 he began making relief prints from carved blocks of plaster. His work was included in the landmark 1963-64 'Australian Print Survey' traveling exhibition.
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