MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY, INC. – Santa Claws Holiday Auction 2017
Auction Ends: Dec 4, 2017 10:00 PM EST

Art

Painted Miniature Plate by artist Edna Hibel

Item Number
244
Estimated Value
125 USD
Opening Bid
45 USD

Item Description

Vase of flowers painted on a miniature porcelain by artist Edna Hibel. Signed on the back of the framing by the artist when she was in Westborough, MA, the plate is framed and matted under glass. Frame approx. 10 inches square by 1 inch deep. 

Born in 1917 to Abraham and Lena Hibel of Boston, Massachusetts, Miss Hibel grew up in the Boston area. She was educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin. She spent many summers at the shore in Hull, Massachusetts and in Maine studying watercolor painting.  She began painting at the age of 9 in elementary school. Edna Hibel was educated at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, and was a special graduate student later. In  1942, she was honored with the Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico.

Edna began "pulling" stone lithographs in 1966 in Boston and then moved to work in a fourth generation 'atelier" in Zurich in 1970 and she still works in Switzerland. Lithography is a drawing medium and it is especially suited to her draftsmanship and exquisite control over "the line."  She innovated in creating works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and encouraged her porcelain manufacturers to allow her to create color separations with stone lithography which were transferred in a "secret" complicated process onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. These works are now called lithographs on porcelain.

Item Special Note

Winning bidder can pick up in Salisbury MA, or greater Worcester/Metrowest area; or gift card/certificate can be sent via regular first class mail for no fee. If winner desires, can be mailed with tracking and/or insurance at  buyer's cost via USPS.

Donated By:

Stan & Inge Trzoniec