About the work

Horia Damian was renowned for his exploration of very few themes in extraordinary depth. Thomas Messer, the Director of the Guggenheim, wrote that Damian’s work is concerned with the intuition of an extra-terrestrial spatial order. Messer’s description may be difficult to understand, but Damian’s work can be enjoyed precisely because it does not actually require understanding. His work is about geometry, but a geometry that is not rigid. He balances the orderliness of geography with a sensitive and painterly mode. The beauty of his abstractions is their ability to suggest so much.

A mastaba is an ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings.

This work is From “Les symboles du lieu”.

Attributes	Value
Medium	Lithograph
Date	1980-2000
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Signed and Dated by the artist en recto on bottom
Framing	Custom framed and matted using conservation materials
Condition	Excellent Condition
Type	Modern Print-Makers

Medium:

Lithograph on Arches Velin wove paper.

Date:

1984

Signature:

Hand-signed by the artist, in pencil, en recto lower right, editioned lower left, and titled lower center. Bearing the blind stamp of the gallery lower right (behind mat).

Publisher:

Galerie Raphael, Frankfort

Framing:

Custom matted with an 8-ply mat in a painted aluminum frame with welded corners of the sort specially designed by artist and framemaker Richard Kulicke for a Metropolitan Museum traveling exhibition, behind 99% UV-blocking Plexiglass using strictly conservation-grade materials.

Condition:

Excellent condition.

Framed Size:

30 in. (h) x 39 in. (w) x 1.5 in. (d)

Sheet Size:

23.5 in. (h) x 30.5 in. (w)