Abstract 15.5 x 22 woodcut print of Albert Einstein by Irving Amen, numbered 170/200, titled, signed, and dated in the lower border in pencil by the artist, "Einstein, Amen, 55." In very good to fine condition, with old tape stains to the edges, and light toning from prior display.
Born in New York, Irving Amen (1918–211) was a renowned painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. He received a scholarship for the Pratt Institute Art School early on. There he studied from 1932 to 1939 and also taught there in the early 1960s. At the same time, he was a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame in South Indiana. In 1950, he went to Paris and studied at the Académie de Grande Chaumière. Amen undertook extensive travels through Europe and Mexico. Later, he worked and lived in Boca Raton, Florida. His exhibition activities began in 1949, debuting at the New York School for Social Research. This Cubist-inspired portrait of the sweater-clad Einstein was made in the year of the physicist's death.
