Running Man. Original etching. First edition.

Original etching, 24.5 x 20 cm, on sheet size 38.2 x 28cm. One of 250 signed, numbered and titled impressions on rag paper. Matted with original AAA label. Slight horizonal fold.Limited edition of two hundred and fifty signed and numbered impressions,Note: Gregory Masurovsky: A fine, international etcher, lithographer and book illustrator, Gregory Masurovsky studied at the Art Students League of New York. After working several years in New York, Gregory Masurovsky moved to Paris, France (1954), where he still resides. Since 1957 important one-man shows of his art have been held in New York, Cleveland, Paris, Berne, Munich and Frankfurt. In 1961, Gregory Masurovsky won the Critic's Prize for Drawing at the Paris Biennale; in 1963 he was awarded the International Jury Prize for etching from the same exhibition. He was the recipient of the William Copley Foundation Grant in 1963 and, in 1964, was honoured with a comprehensive one-man exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Artes, in Brussels. A leading artist of both the surreal and fantastic, Gregory Masurovsky has been held in high esteem for many years. His original etchings and lithographs are included in too many major public galleries in both America and in Europe to list. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has one of the most comprehensive collections of Masurovsky's original prints. Running Man was commissioned by the Associated American Artists of New York in 1966 in a sole limited edition of 250 impressions. Since its creation in the mid 1930's the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and lithographs of no less stature during the 1960's and 1970's as contributing artists included Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, James Kearns, Gregory Masurovsky, Jack Coughlin and Sidney Chafetz. Masurovsky is known to have contributed two original etchings to the A.A.A. during this time, Running Man (1966) and Nude (1967). …