Madeleine Leddy - "Kali" 2 | kleurets (mezzotint) - ingelijst - Sold

Beautiful color etching by Madeleine Leddy (1946)
Technique: color etching using mezzotint technique (soft transitions dark-light)
Title: "Kali" II
Depiction: snake
Explanation: In Hinduism, the evil goddess Kali is often depicted as a woman with bare breasts, savage hair and serpents with forked tongues in her hands. Kali herself often has a forked tongue.
Year: 1985
Edition: 6 of 30
Signed by hand (pencil) lower left; also provided with title, edition and year
Neatly framed with passe-partout in original gold-coloured exchangeable frame with some traces of use.
Passe-partout seems to have discolored very slightly over time.
Photos are part of the description.

About the artist:
Madeleine Leddy makes etchings and works in mixed media. She lives and works in Alkmaar
Education: Gerrit Rietveld Academy A'dam.
When she was two years old, she moved from Amsterdam with her mother to the Dutch East Indies, where her father then lived. In 1950 they return to the Netherlands and end up in Alkmaar. At the Murmellius Gymnasium she takes drawing lessons from the well-known artist Karel Colnot. Although she knows deep in her heart that art is her love, she will study psychology in Amsterdam at the age of eighteen. Attending lectures does not come much during the first year. The freedom of student life ultimately fits better with an education at the Applied Arts School, which later became the Rietveld Academy. She effortlessly combines acting at the Dutch Opera and student cabaret with the Free Graphics course.
After this training, she studies philosophy for another five years. The 'big questions of life', as she herself says, provide the necessary depth in her work. Abstract, figurative or realistic… she is always able to touch the mystery of existence in graphic work or with mixed techniques. 'I can't give a definitive answer, of course, I don't have that pretension, and it doesn't have to be.'

Her work is in the possession of various museums, galleries, art loans and (private) collections.
In England (National Print Exhibition, London) she won the Julian Trevelyan Award.
In Ireland she won the Irish Printer Magazine Prize.
Her work is included in the books:

• Graph Now, part ll, lV, Vlll, lX and X.
• Echo, published by the Grafisch Atelier Alkmaar (text Jhim Lamoree).
• Drukkerstroost, 15 years of graphic life in North Holland (Ad van der Blom)

Leddy is a member of the KCB (Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen) and is part of the Grafiek Groep Bergen.
More info: www.madeleineleddy.com