Little Empress 1986 45x34 Huge
Edna Hibel
Original Painting : Oil and Light Gesso on Board
Size : 41.5x30 in | 105x76 cm
Framed : 45x34 in | 114x86 cm
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Year1986
Hand SignedLower Right
Condition Excellent
Framed without GlassDark Brown Wood With Silver Trim
Story / Additional InfoThe impression designs in the gesso were made with leather-making tools the artist purchased during her 1970 travels to Japan. Edna Hibel created this image as a study for an original stone lithograph she created a year later entitled “Little Empress." The painting and the lithograph were inspired from her short trip to China in 1986 while she was at the opening of her historic exhibition in Beijing.
Certificate of AuthenticityAndy Plotkin, Phd., President, Hibel Studio, Inc.
LID143411
Edna Hibel - United States
Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Edna Hibel American Artist: b. 1917-2014. Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork. She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin. Hibel began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts. Edna Hibel was the honored artist in 2009 at the Literacy for Children Foundation, founded by Barbara Bush and has been commissioned to paint for that organization. Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. Edna Hibel has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complicated process, that she keeps a secret, whereby she transfers stone lithographic color separations onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. Hibel has created the "Arte Ovale" series and various plaques with this technique. She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work and also created a United Nations stamp, "Mother Earth." In 1995, she was commissioned by the Foundation of the U.S. National Archives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of women receiving the universal right to vote. Sadly, Edna passed away on December 5, 2014.Paintings wanted,