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Helen Siegl
Paradise, Garden of Eden, Lithograph on paper, Signed, titled #36/100, Unframed

1976

$450
£338.70
€396.25
CA$636.43
A$646.41
CHF 372.51
MX$7,804.49
NOK 4,327.05
SEK 4,363.16
DKK 2,962.13

About the Item

Helen Siegl Paradise, 1976 Lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 36/100 Unframed Provenance: Rodger LaPelle Galleries, PA depicts a scene reminiscent of the Garden of Eden or the Peaceable Kingdom, featuring Adam and Eve surrounded by various animals. • The scene includes a giraffe, a lion, a peacock, a deer-like creature, a bird, and a serpentine creature in a tree. Helen Siegl was known for her printmaking techniques and often illustrated children's books. • Printmaker and illustrator Helen Siegl was born in Vienna, Austria, on August 18, 1924. She studied architecture and design at the Academie Fur Angwandte Kunst in Vienna, under professor Oswald Haetel, later apprenticing in his studio after graduation in 1946. She emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1952, and that same year she married Theodor Siegl, Conservator of Paintings for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Living in Philadelphia, she became a U.S. Citizen in 1959. • Siegl’s unusual printmaking technique— often combining various kinds of blocks and plates to create an image, including handmade plaster blocks she designed when wood was scarce in Vienna during World War II— helped garner her reputation as a widely respected printmaker. Combined with the originality of her design, her illustrations for such books as “Aesop’s Fables”, “Dancing Palm Tree” (for which she won the New York Times Book Review’s International Award), “Images From the Old Testament”, “Mother Goose”, Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant”, and others also secured international regard for her artistry as well. • She was a regular contributor to the Philadelphia Print Club, and her work is included in various collections nationwide, among them the National Gallery and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  • Creator:
    Helen Siegl (1924 - 2009, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1976
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Original condition; never framed.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745217219632

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