"This Extasie Doth Unperplex..."

1957

June Wayne

Associated Names
June Wayne

Artist, American, 1918 - 2011

Marcel Durassier

Printer, French, active 20th century

This is a painting of two figures immersed in a flowing medium. The painting features two human forms lying in a parallel manner within a fluid-like environment. The soft, muted colors and textural strokes convey a sense of movement, as if the figures are floating or submerged. The brushwork and composition highlight the contours and features of the forms with a gentle, continuous flow.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, 2004)

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.78 × 50.48 cm (14 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.48 × 66.04 cm (19 7/8 × 26 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3286

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Conway 2007, no. 123, ii/ii

  • Series Title

    John Donne Series

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Gilmour, Pat. "A Love Affair with Lithography: The Prints of June Wayne." Print Quarterly 9, no. 2 (1992): no. 51, ii/ii.

2007

  • Conway, Robert P. June Wayne, the Art of Everything: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1936-2006. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007, p. 131, no. 123, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: II 11/25 "This Extasie doth Unperplex -" John Donne Series; lower right in graphite: Wayne 1957

Markings

embossed lower left: [June Wayne mushroom]

Watermarks

BFK RIVES

Wikidata ID

Q77010180

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