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Medium: Mezzotint
Maniere Noire a la Noisette Belle, 1963 by Mario Avati
By Mario Avati
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mario Avati, French (1921 - 2009)
Title: Maniere Noire a la Noisette Belle
Year: 1963
Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 22/75
Image Size: 9.5 x 11.5 i...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Characters VIII / Eclipse
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietens prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The letters on the background reflect up into t...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Mortar and Pestle with Funnel
By Tomoe Yokoi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mortar and Pestle with Funnel
Mezzotint on BFK Rives paper, c. 1973
Signed and editioned in pencil by the artist
Edition: 150 (41/150)
Condition: Mint, never framed or matted
Image: ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Clifford James (active 1900-1930)
After James Abbott NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
Color mezzotint, 1922
Signed in pencil by James (see ...
Category
1920s Pre-Raphaelite Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Les Oignons de Siracuse
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Oignons de Siracuse
Mezzotint, 1961
Signed, titled & annotated Epreuve d'Artiste vii/X in pencil
Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste vii/X
Reference: Passeron 315
Condition: Mint
Image: ...
Category
1960s French School Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Des Oeufs Pout Ta Fette (Holiday Eggs)
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Des Oeufs Pout Ta Fette
(Holiday Eggs)
Mezzotint, 1960
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50 (33/50)
Image: 8 5/8 x 10 11/16"
Condition: Mint
Mario Avati is a Fren...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
Mezzotint and engraving on cream chine collé laid down on ivory wove paper, 1883
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Condition: Brilliant impression...
Category
1880s Impressionist Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
The Right Hon Henry Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, portrait engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The Right Hon Henry Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister
Mezzotint. 1918. India-laid proof before lettering with a remarque of a doorway centre bottom.
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl o...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Plutusia, from Imaginary Places II (Axsom 246). hand signed/N signed COA FRAMED
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella
Plutusia, from Imaginary Places II (Axsom & Schnitzer, 246), 1996
52 color lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, relief, mezzotint, engraving on white TGL handmade...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Foil
Samuel Cousins, engraver, self portrait mezzotint engraving
By Samuel Cousins
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Samuel Cousins
Mezzotint, by Edwin Long after Samuel Cousins (1801-1887). 1884.
530mm by 405mm (platemark) 620mm by 495mm (sheet).
India-laid proof before lettering, signed in p...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Banana Plants: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line double page engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 1. Musa,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Corn, Maize: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of two varieties of corn or maize, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Frumentum ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Calla Lily: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a beautiful original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Calla Lily, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Arum Aethiopicum ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Leaf
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Banana Plant: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 2. Mauze, Baradis-feigen", p...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Calla Lily 2: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a beautiful original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Calla Lily, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Arum Aethiopicum ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Narcissus Lily: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Red Narcissus Lily plant, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Narcissus In...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Betel Nut Palm: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of a flowering Betel Nut Palm plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Fagus Fau Buch,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Bambalina (Are ornaments, decorations mere backdrop for true Christmas story)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Souto named this image Bambalina (backstage). It is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela. He received a BFA from Herron Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Red Geranium: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Red Geraniums which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Geranium Anemones folio Af...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Burning Bush: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Gas Plants or Burning Bush and Fraxinella, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitle...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Red Sweet Pea: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Red Sweet Peas which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Lathyrus Flore Majore Pur...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Days Gone
Located in New Orleans, LA
Finns always seek the solace of nature. Is this mysterious stairway an escape from the challenges of civilization? Vanttinen created this mezzotint in an edition of 100 and it is tit...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Variations
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Variations" is a very large nude mezzotint listed in the catalogue raisonne as HAN #105. It was issued in an edition of 90.
Born in Yokohama in 1954, Watanabe graduated from Ecole...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Cotton Plant: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Apple: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled Malus domestica, Pomier, Apfelbaunt (Apple)". It is plate 704 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publicatio...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Asparagus: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving finished with hand coloring by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled a. Thyrsus asparagi. b. Asparagus, Asperge. c. Aspa...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Settling II Homage to the Mezzotint (Self Portrait of Artist with his Tools)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Francisco Souto has created his self portrait working on the plate of a mezzotint. This is impression #14 from an edition of only 23.
Souto received a BFA from Herron School of Art ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Confident (profile of sensual young woman with wisps of hair on her neck)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Sommeil (a sensuous nude woman sleeps on her side)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this mezzotint, the sensual profile of a young nude woman is seen sleeping with her torso stretched out. The mezzotint is signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, from a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Rakstzimes (Characters) XVII / ∞-B, mezzotint by Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint with aquatint
Year: 2015
Edition: 35 copies, signed in pencil.
Image Size: 10.25 x 8.66 inches
The surreal illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Black Circle III, by Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint and aquatint
Year: 2014
Edition: 30, signed in pencil.
Image Size: 12 x 15.75 inches
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
The illusions and reflections in Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
No U-Turn
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2023
Edition: 25
Image Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passing each...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
LITHOGRAPHS Greenwich Village NYC, Signed Mezzotint, Art Gallery, Photorealism
By John Baeder
Located in Union City, NJ
LITHOGRAPHS Greenwich Village NYC by the American photorealist artist John Baeder is a limited edition mezzotint printed using hand printmaking techniques on archival, cream colored ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
John Cother Webb signed mezzotint "Regulus leaving Carthage"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: mezzotint. Engraved by John Cother Webb after the J. M. W. Turner painting and signed in pencil by John Cother Webb. Printed in 1924 on chine-collé paper (china paper mounted...
Category
1920s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Showcase (color), by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Color mezzotint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic mezzotint of the tattooed back of a circus per...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
TV Re-Run B Unique mixed media monotype and colored embossing geometric abstract
Located in New York, NY
Alan Shields
TV Re-Run B, 1978
Mixed Media Monotype: Color drypoint, mezzotint, linocut and colored embossing on perforated paper on Handmade Paper Mounted on Linen Board
Signed, num...
Category
1970s Abstract Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Drypoint, Mezzotint, Linocut, Pencil
Untitled (Web 1)
By Vija Celmins
Located in New York, NY
Portfolio: The MOCA Portfolio
Sheet size: 23 x 18 1/4 inches
Frame size: 24 15/16 x 20 1/8 inches
Printer: Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica
Publisher: Lapis Press and Museum of Contemporar...
Category
Early 2000s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Still Night (Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Avenue off Flatbush Avenue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
Category
1980s American Modern Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Personal Space
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2004
Edition: 100
Image Size: 15.5 x 11 inches
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passing each ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
(after) John Constable mezzotint "Spring"
By David Lucas
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape Scenery" portfolio, published in London ...
Category
1850s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Beauties of Claude Lorrain mezzotint - Plate 10
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...
Category
1820s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Flight of the Elephant Garlic
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50. Most of his mezzotints are tiny, and his subjects are the simplest of everyday objects: an egg, seashell, carrot, potatoes. Simil...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
(after) John Constable mezzotint "A Heath"
By David Lucas
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape Scenery" portfolio, published in London ...
Category
1850s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Beauties of Claude Lorrain mezzotint - Plate 12
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching, engraving and mezzotint (after Claude Lorrain). This lovely impression on wove paper was engraved by G.H. Every for the "Beauties of Claude Lorraine" portfolio. The ...
Category
1820s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
J. M. W. Turner / Sir Frank Short mezzotint "Erhrenbreitstein to Coblenz, No. 2"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: mezzotint. Catalogue reference: Hardie 95. Executed in 1913 by Sir Frank Short after J. M. W. Turner and signed in pencil by Sir Frank Short. Printed on chine-collé paper in ...
Category
1910s Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
"The Fern Gatherers" 18th Century Antique Mezzotint Engraving by John R. Smith
Located in Carmel, CA
"The Fern Gatherers" After a painting by George Morland. 1763-1804. - Mezzotint engraving by John Raphael Smith. 1752-1812.
Print: 20.75" x 26" - With Frame: 28" x 33.5"
Published:...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Landscape with Window and Chair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Window and Chair
Mezzotint on wove paper, 2000
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 150 (93/150) (see photo)
Special Presentation Print for the Print Club of Albany, 2000
Condition: Mint
Image/Plate size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 7 x 5 1/2 inches
From the Print Club of Albany:
"Kipniss states that it is part of his working process to explore an image in pencil, in paint and in print. As the image evolves, its ramifications lead to hints of the next work. This image is well-suited for this medium since in mezzotint the artist literally draws the light as he burnishes the tiny rocked copper pinholes that trap the ink and become the image."
From 1968 into 1990, Kipniss created lithographs that followed the style and content of his paintings, whether generally or specifically. A commission from a print publisher in 1968 for five editions of lithographs precipitated his adoption of lithography as a medium.
Kipniss's first lithographs were done in black and white, but by 1970 he was also working in color. He taught himself "to lay in the most delicately light silvery tones on the surface of the limestone by maintaining an exceptionally sharp point on the lithographic pencil and drawing with no pressure other than the weight of the pencil itself." He built up a support so that his hand and wrist could "dangle" over the stone. By 1990 Kipniss had completed about 450 editions of lithographs, usually of 90 to 250 impressions, at the Burr Miller studio in Manhattan. He worked from 1969 with master printer Burr Miller and then with Steve and Terry, his sons.
Works by the artist are in the following public collections:
• Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor*
• Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria*
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• Arkansas State University Permanent Collection, State University, AR
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
• Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
• Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
• Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris*
• Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME*
• British Museum, London, England*
• Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY*
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
• Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• Century Association, New York, NY
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH*
• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
• Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
"The Country Stable" 18th Century Antique Mezzotint Engraving by William Ward
Located in Carmel, CA
"The Country Stable" After a painting by George Morland. 1763-1804. - Mezzotint engraving by William Ward. 1766-1826.
Print: 20.75" x 26" - With Frame: 28.5" x 34"
Published: March...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Melons
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Melons
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
A Pair of Poppies
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Pair of Poppies
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Wein...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Citrus and Apricots
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Citrus and Apricots
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plate, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann ...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint, Laid Paper
untitled (Still Life with Cup and Horn)
By Tomoe Yokoi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Still Life with Cup and Horn)
Color mezzotint, c. 1980
Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 100 (53/100)
Published by John Szoke Graphics, New ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
Java Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Java Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Melons
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Melons
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
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1980s Modern Art by Medium: Mezzotint
Materials
Mezzotint
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