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A print with an irregularly shaped border featuring two faces. The left shows a softly shaded, forward-facing face with a necklace. The right displays a heavily lined, upward-looking male profile. Text near the bottom reads "OEDIPUS ANTIGONE".
Oedipus and Antigone
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Oedipus and Antigone

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1981
MediumDrypoint and mezzotint relief
Dimensions11 1/2 x 15 9/16 in. (29.2 x 39.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.20
Collections
Visual DescriptionA print with an irregularly shaped border featuring two faces. The left shows a softly shaded, forward-facing face with a necklace. The right displays a heavily lined, upward-looking male profile. Text near the bottom reads "OEDIPUS ANTIGONE".
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Jiri Anderle
1981
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Beatrice d'Este
Jiri Anderle
1981
A print in two sections. The top shows a draped woman holding a child who grasps a cluster of grapes. The bottom displays a sequence of overlapping profile faces that progressively tilt upward from left to right.
Gloria
Jiri Anderle
1988
A multi-panel print. The top row has two dark portraits flanking a geometric grid over a sketched fetal figure. The wide bottom panel displays five heads in a row, featuring basic sketches, fragmented pieces, and exposed anatomical structures.
Our Generation
Jiri Anderle
1972
A monochromatic print featuring a woman's profile looking down. A dark, textured cluster of overlapping upward-looking faces overlays her torso. Her hands hold a jagged white shape. Thick white lines float above her. Two faintly colored round fruits sit below.
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Jiri Anderle
1979
A sepia-toned print featuring a horizontal sequence of overlapping human profiles facing right. The faces are sandwiched between two dark, textured, reddish-brown horizontal bands. Faint, wispy lines extend outward from this central composition.
Saskia
Jiri Anderle
1978
A sepia print of an ornate classical frame flanked by two figures on pedestals with heavily shaded legs and lightly outlined torsos. Between them, a complex tangled mass of flowing lines hovers over a central pedestal holding a textured organic object.
In Combattimento di Trancredi e Clorinda I
Jiri Anderle
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A print with a fine-lined sketched portrait of a forward-facing person with a neutral expression. The face and neck are rendered with dense, cross-hatched shading emphasizing the eyes, while the hair and shoulders are only faintly outlined.
Cassandra
Jiri Anderle
1984
A print with a large, highly detailed sketch of a heavily lined, bald elderly man's face dominates the center. It is surrounded by a grid of smaller drawn heads, varying from realistic portraits to severely distorted, fragmented, and grotesque faces.
Sunt Lacrymae Rerum II
Jiri Anderle
1984
A two-paneled print. The top section features faint blue intersecting lines and a grid overlaid with two sketched, fragmented faces, one from a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer. The narrow brown bottom panel depicts faces of a woman and baby flanked by horizontal, swirling abstract shapes and textures.
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Jiri Anderle
1971
A print showing a forward-facing woman holding her exposed breast. To her right, an older man's profile faces left, positioned closely to her chest. Faint line drawings of another profile are visible in the top right.
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Jiri Anderle
1982

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