A fine rich impression of this great rarity, carefully printed with extensive burr from the drypoint work.

Although Czestochowski accounts for 9 impressions in public collections, we know of no impressions to have reached the market in recent history.

This is one of Davies's great cubist gems, done in the short period just after the New York Armory Show of 1913 (which he helped organize) and his later artistic periods. The first state of Arms Up is a well drawn realistic portrait of a model; in the second state the design is expanded with rich drypoint, and multiple overlapping cubist planes and moving directional lines. In this impression there are several layers of color as well (all done with the drypoint needle), ranging from near white to shades of grey to rich black.

This is one of a large collection of AB Davies prints available.