Artist
Mauricio Lasansky
American, 1914–2012
Mauricio Lasansky was an American artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Mauricio Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires.
Mauricio Leib Lasansky was an Argentine artist and educator known both for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking and for a series of 33 pencil drawings from the 1960s titled "The Nazi Drawings." Lasansky, who migrated to and became a citizen of the United States, established the program in printmaking at the University of Iowa, which offered the first Master of Fine Arts program in the field in the United States. Sotheby's identifies him as one of the fathers of modern printmaking.
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