Busacca Gallery

A image of black and white nudes. The cover is the only one in red. This is a woodcut in colored paper, not framed. Condition: Very good condition. Not framed. Hard to find, these are for the world woodblock print collector. I have a number of them for sale within this collection. A colored illustration woodcut of a book portfolio. Name "Femmes Damnees" is a French book of woodblock prints produced by A. Sleff in April of 1946. Each page is framed and has a woodblock poem corresponding to the image on the back of the print. It is one of 51 copies, all of which are printed on velin paper. "Femmes Damnees" literally translates to the "fatal woman". Although these images recall the turn of the century fixation with the femme fatale, the poetry and images suggest a dominant lesbian theme.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220, and from Egypt to the 4th century. Ukiyo-e is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print.Most European uses of the technique on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the fifteenth century.