About the work

Russian-American artist Ilya Bolotowsky was a prominent mid-Century geometric abstractionist who loved to explore angles within a square or round confines.

Of the dozens of Bolotowsky diamonds I have seen, I have only ever seen one other instance of two diamonds in the same work. I have never seen Bolotowsky diamonds with a ghost image creating a part of the shape.

This work is from Bolotowsky’s Series 7.

Because of the challenge of capturing the white-on-white in photographs, please see multiple photographs showing the work in varying light.

Attributes	Value
Medium	Lithograph
Date	1970-1980
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Signed by the artist en recto
Framing	Museum-Quality Framing
Condition	Fine Condition
Type	Modern Print-Makers

Medium:

Lithograph in colors

Paper:

Rives BFK cotton wove paper.

Date:

ca. 1970

Signature:

Hand-signed by the artist in pencil en recto lower right. Numbered in pencil by the artist en recto lower left.

Edition:

Number 123 out of the edition of 125.

Framing:

This picture is framed in solid ash, hand-painted black, with an 8-ply mat behind museum-grade UV-Filtering Plexiglass. Framing by one of Washington’s most prominent framers. All conservation materials.

Condition:

Very Good condition. Shows modest rippling in photos but barely noticeable in person.

Framed Size:

35.75 in. (h) × 26.375 in. (w) × 1 in. (d)

Sheet Size:

29.5 in. (h) x 21.5 in. (w)