The IFPDA Print Fair Returns to the Park Avenue Armory, Illuminating the Relationship Between Prints and Drawings
ARTnews reports that the IFPDA Print Fair will take place at New York’s Park Avenue Armory from April 9–12, bringing together 80 exhibitors from Singapore to Stockholm and presenting roughly 500 years of drawings, prints, and editions. The organization has recently rebranded as the International Fine Prints & Drawings Association, and longtime members including Hill-Stone, David Tunick, Inc., and William Shearburn Gallery are expanding to show more master drawings. New exhibitors include Mireille Mosler and Jill Newhouse Gallery, which will show Edward Hopper’s charcoal drawing High Noon (Study) (1949), described as one of only five known drawings related to his painting High Noon (also 1949). The article highlights how works such as Françoise Gilot’s unique lithograph Opera (Red) and Edgar Degas’s monotype Dancers in Rehearsal (ca. 1874–76) complicate strict distinctions between prints and drawings.
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