Sapphic Strophe 3

Part of Mehretu's acclaimed "Sapphic Strophes: A Suite of Four Prints," this 2011 relief print demonstrates the artist's masterful translation of her large-scale painting vocabulary into the intimate medium of printmaking. Created from a letterpress plate on Italian mould-made Revere Paper, the work maintains the complex layering and dynamic mark-making that has established Mehretu as one of the most significant abstract painters of her generation. Edition 16 of 40, the print exemplifies her ongoing investigation into the intersection of architectural space, historical mapping, and gestural abstraction.