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.
"Convoi Funèbre au Boulevard de Clichy" (original French title) Etching, aquatint, roulette, and touches of drypoint printed in color, from three p...
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Le Grand-Prix de Paris (original French title) Color etching, aquatint, and drypoint printed on simili-japon paper, 1906.Ref: Delteil 74.Edition of...
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La Robe Bleue (original French titles) Color aquatint and etching on thick wove paper, 1909.Ref: BN-IFF 2-8; not in Addade.Stated edition of 200 (o...
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Buse Prise au Piège (original French title) Aquatint and etching printed in color on wove paper.Edition unknown, but apparently not very large.Like...
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Cut-out color aquatint and etching on BFK Rives wove paper. Reference: Spielmann 282.2. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil.
Etching and aquatint printed in color on wove paper.Edition of 135.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.
Le Baptême à Tréboul (original French title) Color aquatint and etching on Arches wove paper.Edition unknown, but like most of the artist’s work s...
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Lieu 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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Le Moulin (descriptive French title) Color aquatint and etching on laid Arches paper.Edition unknown, certainly small, if any. We have never encou...
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La Viosne à Pontoise (original French title) Etching, aquatint, and drypoint printed in blue and black inks on laid Arches paper.References: Koehl ...
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Sur le Chemin (original French title) Color etching printed on laid paper.Reference: Delteil 39.Edition of 50 in the fourth and final state. Scarce...
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La Patineuse (original French title) Color aquatint and soft-ground etching printed in color on thick wove paper. References: neither in the BN-IFF...
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