Art by Medium: Mezzotint

Christine Ravaux, Belgian (1961 - 2021) - Ivy, Year: 2002, Medium: Mezzotint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 41/100, Image Size: 4.25 x 4.25 inches, Frame Size: ...

Artist: K.B. (Kyu-Baik) Hwang, Korean (1932 - ) Title: Crowd of Shadows Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 50 Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 5...

Signed and titled artist proof. Mezzotint portrait of a musician playing a tuba. Suarez is from Mexico, and exhibits internationally, winning awards for his evocative mezzotints. T...

Carrie Lingscheit's print often deal with relationships and memories. "Human experience is plagued by an inherent incompleteness—both perception and memory being naturally imperfect,...

This mezzotint, Singer (1984), is a finely realized example of Carol Wax’s mastery of one of printmaking’s most demanding techniques. Depicting the ornate handwheel and mechanism of ...

Chestnuts IV is a mezzotint by acclaimed Latvian printmaker Guntars Sietins, recognized internationally for his meticulous technique and introspective imagery. His surreal constructi...

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...

A fine 18th Century mezzotint, showing Lord William Newbottle and his sister, Lady Elisabeth Kar, as children, holding a dove. This mezzotint, by Valentine Green (1739-1813) is after the original painting by Catherine Read (1723-1778). The print has been attractively presented in a 19th Century Hogarth...

Gatja Helgart Rothe, German (1935 - 2008) - Nasciamento, Year: 1986, Medium: Mezzotint, signed, titled and dated in pencil, Image Size: 7.75 x 11.75 inches, Size: 11.75 x 15 in...

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...

Game Work No. 20 Mezzotint, c. 1984 Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition 100: (7/100) Provenance: Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors to Art Inst. of Chicago Hamanishi Exhibition, Oct. 12, 2013-January 5, 2014 Reference: Katsunori Hamanishi's Work Price List-Small 22 Condition: Excellent Image: 13 1/4 x 8 3/4" Sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 1/8" Ninion and Sheldon Landy were major collectors of Hamanishi's works. They donated a large group of his mezzotints to Art Institute of Chicago, which formed the core of the exhibitions of his works at AIC in 2014 and again in 2019. HAMANISHI Katsunori...

WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm. Coconut/Palm Nut Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745. attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing. Johann Wei...

Artist: Robert Kipniss, American (1931 - ) Title: Tual Year: circa 1980 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: Trial Proof Image Size: 14.75 x 11.75 inches Frame:...

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: ...

THE GAMESTERS and THE FORTUNE TELLER. A wonderful pair of color printed mezzotint engravings after paintings by the Rev. Matthew William Peters, R....

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...

'Jacques and the Wounded Stag, Scene from 'As you like it'' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. ...

'A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic...

'Gillingham Mill, Dorsetshire' Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836). From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. John Constable RA was an English Romantic...

Chinese Lanterns by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, w...

Fred Mershimer created this piece using mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques with handpainted watercolor. "Across the Floor" was printed in an edition of 120 in 2011. It ...

Artist: K.B. (Kyu-Baik) Hwang Title: Maturity Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mezzotint, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Edition: AP Paper Size: 30 x 22 inches

Water Mill (after the drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851). 1885. Mezzotint. Hardie 3.ii. With the publication line. 7 x 10 1/8 (sheet 12 1/4 x 16 5/8...

Knaresborough (after a watercolor by Peter De Wint, 1784-1849). c. 1904. Mezzotint. Hardie catalog 80 state ii. 7 7/16 x 11 3/8 (sheet 13 3/8 x 18). A very rich impression, printed o...

Jose Sacal (Mexico, 1944-2018) 'Angel', 2002 mezzotint on paper 22.1 x 18.4 in. (56 x 46.5 cm.) Edition of 25 ID: SAC-101 Hand-signed by author

This mezzotint was created by Korean artist K.B. Hwang. Hwang's soft lighting and colors, at once vivid and subdued, depict familiar objects in surreal settings. After moving to New ...

Sevillian Bowl by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, wh...

La Paire Amarette by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Lang...

Remington Strip Tease had a black iron dome covering the moving parts and suppressing noise. It is presented in a light that suggests a monument. It is f...

This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958) Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...

Laurent Schkolnyk created this original mezzotint, L' Anais that is signed, titled and numbered #22 in an edition of 30. Since the fruit was so perishable, it became a symbol of lu...

Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80. Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...

This image is #12 from an edition of only 75, Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...

Sharon Augusta Mitchell created "Ram Skull" in an edition of 100. This is impression #10 from the edition. It is signed, titled and numbered in pencil by ...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer IV looking at the botton of the typewriter portrays the incised metal of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75 and this impression is #22. FIR...

Architextures is a suite of 8 mezzotints in an edition of 50 created in 1984: Mosque and Mosque Interior (5.1 cm x 5.1 cm) Dome and Dome Interior (5.7cm x 3.8 cm) Castle and Castle ...

Jose Sacal (Mexico, 1944-2018) 'Amada', 2002 mezzotint on paper 22.1 x 18.4 in. (56 x 46.5 cm.) Edition of 25 ID: SAC-101 Hand-signed by author

Lois Ward's "Red Damsel" is a color mezzotint created in 1994 in a very small edition of just 10. This impression is #2 of 10. A young human figure in green gazes down on a Tinker B...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Made in China", explores the irony that glass, a transparent material alters perceptions of reality. This is the first instance in which Wax explores that iro...

Lois Ward created a Fragile Series of images including "Crushed Beetle" in 1990 in a very small edition of just 9. This impression is #1 of 9. Ward has always been concerned with t...

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...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is...

Anne Dykmans' "Wind" shows a multi color ribbon flapping in the wind. The flow of the wind is shown through the movement of the fabric. It is in an edition of just 10. Anne Dykman...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...

This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...

Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Christine Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed the black hills that dot the landscape of the ...

This image is an artist proof XII / XII. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...

This image is from an edition of 50. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Teoria del salto III', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 10.5 x 8.3 in. (26.5 x 21 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-308 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Cuidadito compay gallo', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 25.2 x 20.1 in. (64 x 51 cm.) Edition of 15 ID: LAL-306 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Adicción', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 29.6 x 22.1 in. (75 x 56 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-304 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Oidos sordos', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-301 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Untitled', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 27.6 x 21.3 in. (70 x 54 cm.) Edition of 20 ID: LAL-307 Unframed

Luis Lara (Mexico, 1972) 'Reflejo', 2000 mezzotint on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 28 x 19.7 in. (71 x 50 cm.) Edition of 13 ID: LAL-305 Unframed

Michele Zalopany was born in Detroit, Michigan. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design from 1973 to 1974 and the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1976 to 1978. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 1981. Through her labor-intensive mezzotints, Zalopany employs realism to depict fictitious scenes, bearing witness to the disintegration of what was once the fulcrum of the American economy in Detroit. Zalopany’s work is widely represented in many public and private collections in the United States and in Europe including The National Gallery of Art, The Yokohama Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Royal College of Art in London, and numerous others. Her work has been exhibited in galleries that include P.P.O.W., John Good...

Michele Zalopany was born in Detroit, Michigan. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design from 1973 to 1974 and the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1976 to 1978. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 1981. Through her labor-intensive mezzotints, Zalopany employs realism to depict fictitious scenes, bearing witness to the disintegration of what was once the fulcrum of the American economy in Detroit. Zalopany’s work is widely represented in many public and private collections in the United States and in Europe including The National Gallery of Art, The Yokohama Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Royal College of Art in London, and numerous others. Her work has been exhibited in galleries that include P.P.O.W., John Good...

Contemporary figurative black and white drypoint and copperplate print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. This surrealistic print depicts a man watering a river, there are fish in the wat...

Contemporary figurative black & white mezzotint and drypoint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a man facing a horse. Above them there is a dog in a landscape and bene...