Death and the Butcher

1957, aquatint

Greg and Connie Peters at ArtofthePrint.com write on this work:

“Chaim Koppelman's original aquatint, Death and the Butcher, 1957, represents one of his largest and most compelling works of graphic art. Such great masters as Holbein have used the theme of the Dance of Death to great effect. While drawing upon this tradition, Koppelman has here, quite literally, illuminated other elements of life and death. On Death and the Butcher, he wrote,

As a graphic artist, loves I've had are the drama of forms emerging out of darkness into bright light, suggestively evoking mystery, the unseen, half-seen, and the more fully illuminated.

“The Cochran Collection, LaGrange Art Museum, Georgia includes an impression of Death and the Butcher in its permanent collection.”

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