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About this work

You see a jagged black line cutting across a pale gray sheet, like a crack in ice or a lightning bolt frozen mid-strike. Fiene made this print in Paris the same year the stock market crashed. The sharp, uneven line feels like tension—maybe the city’s energy, maybe his own nerves. It’s not a picture of anything, yet it feels like something you’ve almost seen before. To see how other artists turned empty space into feeling, look up more works in lithography.