Jetty on the Garonne River in Bordeaux
LEPERE, Auguste
Embarcadère sur la Garonne, Bordeaux (original French title) Etching and aquatint printed in four colors on laid paper.Reference: Lotz-Brissonneau ...
View full detailsIt may be hard to fathom today, but once upon a time prints were monochromatic. When the first generation of Western printmakers challenged themselves to create etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts in color, their efforts were at first viewed with disdain by many. Japanese woodcuts, which had been printed in color for hundreds of years by then, showed artists the way. This revolution was particularly hard-fought for intaglio: etching, aquatint, drypoint, and assorted copper-plate techniques. Etching was regarded mostly as a “graphic” art, from the ancient Greek, γράφειν: to write. The expectation was that the graphic artist was to render his vision in line or grayscale only. Color was for painting. Yet many printmakers forged ahead, threw caution to the wind, pushed the envelope. This selection is an ode to those works of art: painterly etchings.
Embarcadère sur la Garonne, Bordeaux (original French title) Etching and aquatint printed in four colors on laid paper.Reference: Lotz-Brissonneau ...
View full detailsBuse Prise au Piège (original French title) Aquatint and etching printed in color on wove paper.Edition unknown, but apparently not very large.Like...
View full detailsQuatre Iles (original French title)Embossed color aquatint and linear scuffing on wove paper.Printed to the sheet edge, as usual.Trial proof, aside...
View full detailsZum Träumen (original German title) Color aquatint and etching on wove paper.Edition of 50.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.
Südliches (original German title) Color aquatint and etching on wove paper.Edition of 50.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.
Le Symbole du Calvaire (original French title) For more on the Calvary monuments found found mostly in Norther Europe, read this interesting articl...
View full detailsColor aquatint and soft ground etching on Arches wove paper, 1963.This is likely printed using the Atelier 17 method of simultaneous color printing...
View full detailsLieu de Rencontre – St Maximin (original French title) Color etching and aquatint on BFK Rives wove paper.Edition of 50.Signed, titled, numbered an...
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