Lucile Roebuck Keeler (XX) - Radius-Diagonal

Lucile Roebuck Keeler: Radius-Diagonal, from La Lune en Rodage (Edition Panderma, Basel, 1965)

A signed Op Art lithograph by the American artist Lucile Roebuck Keeler, produced for La Lune en Rodage, the editioned anthology of post-war and contemporary art assembled by Carl Laszlo and published by Edition Panderma in Basel. The composition is a square field of 28 × 28 cm organised around a radius-and-diagonal system — concentric and intersecting lines that set the surface in optical motion. It belongs squarely to the kinetic and Op idiom of the mid-1960s, in the lineage of Vasarely, Soto and Yvaral, where perception itself becomes the subject of the work.La Lune en Rodage was one of the most ambitious collective editions of its period. Carl Laszlo gathered avant-garde, ZERO, kinetic and concrete artists into a single portable collection; across its volumes the project brought together figures such as Lucio Fontana, Victor Vasarely, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani and Man Ray. Keeler's inclusion places her sheet within this international avant-garde context.

The work is hand-signed and dated by the artist. As one of the 65 hors-commerce copies, it was issued unnumbered.In good condition, with a very light kink to the upper left corner (nearly invisible).Year: 1965
Technique: Lithograph
Edition: Total edition of 230; 65 hors-commerce copies issued unnumbered. This is an unnumbered hors-commerce copy.
Signature: Hand-signed and dated
Dimensions: 28 × 28 cm
Condition: Good; very light, nearly invisible kink to the upper left corner

Publisher: Edition Panderma (Carl Laszlo), BaselLucile Roebuck Keeler (1902–1996) was an American painter and printmaker born in Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and studied in the 1930s at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Francis Chapin. She exhibited through the Sales and Rental Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago and showed in galleries across the Chicago area, working in particular as a lithographer. In 1990 she moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where she died in 1996.