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Painterly Prints

It 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.

Gerhart Bergmann - Zum Traumen - clematis - vine trumpet flower - sewing cigarettes - detail
$300

To Dream

BERGMANN, Gerhart

Zum Träumen (original German title) Color aquatint and etching on wove paper.Edition of 50.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.

Gerhart Bergmann - Sudliches - Meridional - From the South - lemon olive branch - detail
$300

Southern

BERGMANN, Gerhart

Südliches (original German title) Color aquatint and etching on wove paper.Edition of 50.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.