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Medium: Mezzotint
Rencontres
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Rencontres, or chance encounter, is a seemingly random assemblage of seashells, pine cones, and a children's spinning top. From a signed and numbered edition of 35, some of which wer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Flowering Burning Bush: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
A Flowering Cactus Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Cereus Erectus Altissimo Surinamensis (Cereus Cactus Plant)". It is plate...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, 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...
Category
1980s Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Agave or American Aloe: A Framed Hand-colored Engraving from Robert Thornton
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed hand-colored botanical engraving entitled "Agave or American Aloe" by Reinagle for Robert Thornton's publication 'The Temple of Flora, or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher', published in London in 1811. This beautiful botanical was created using several engraving techniques, including aquatint, mezzotint, stipple and line engraving methods. It was printed in color and then finished by hand.
The print is presented in a gold-colored wood frame and a heather green mat, which is enhanced with a gold fillet. The frame measures 21.63" high by 16.63" wide and 1" deep. It is glazed with UV conservation glass. All of the mounting materials are archival. The original text page from the early 19th century publication is attached to the rear of the frame. The print is in excellent condition.
Robert John Thornton (1765-1832) was attracted to natural history at an early edge and created his own botanical garden and an aviary as a boy. He graduated from Cambridge with a medical degree and set up practice as a London. He inherited his family fortune in 1797, which allowed Thornton the opportunity to devote time to his lifelong goal of creating an extensive scholarly work dedicated to the great classical Swedish naturalist, Carolus Von Linnaeus (1707-1778), also known as Carl von Linné...
Category
Early 19th Century Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Lotus
By Maki Hino
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hino creates a still life of a lotus from an edition of 65. A prominent figure in Buddhist and Egyptian culture, and native flower for both India and Vietnam, the lotus holds enormous symbolic weight. It spans various thousand-year-old Eastern cultures and yet, is still considered one of the most sacred flowers today. So what is it about this mysterious blossom that people find so enrapturing? Its colorful bloom is an obvious suspect, but the lotus also has a life cycle unlike any other. With its roots based in mud, it submerges every night into murky river water, and—undeterred by its dirty environment—it miraculously re-blooms the next morning without residue on its petals.
Although cultures have their own interpretations of this daily process, there is a general consensus among ancient texts...
Category
1990s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
SITUATION
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949)
SITUATION X (S. 32) Mezzotint Signed, titled and numbered 6/90 in pencil.
13 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, sheet 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Excellent condition.
She...
Category
1980s Realist Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Le Mais (Corn on the cob) in woven basket)
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1890s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Violin et Coquille (violin and shell / inscribed Happy New Year 2000)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...
Category
1990s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Scopes
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The marriage between the art of science and the art of seeing was cemented by the invention of the lens. It is FIROS #48 in the catalogue raisonne.
Carol Wax originally trained to b...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Red Loop (suite of 12 mezzotints in boxed portfolio)
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 copper mezzotints printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 12. This is impression #5
The 12 complementary mezzotints are included in boxed portfolio
Graduated from the Natio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer I (Distorted perspective with shadows of an old Singer typewriter)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer I", shows a distorted view of an old Singer sewing machine. The artist created a convincing illusion of real mass, space and depth. Issued in an edit...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Drapery Against Black
By Holly Downing
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Asparagus Plant: 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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Characters XIX ⌘-A, by Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotint with aquatint
Image Size: 8.6 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 35
Year: 2016
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Colombe (Dove of Peace returns to ark with olive branch in her beak)
By Mario Avati
Located in New Orleans, LA
"And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was a plucked off olive leaf: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."
Mario Avati, a master ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Sewing Circles
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A play on words provides the title for this image -- a circle created out of the deconstructed parts of Singer IV This image is #37 from an edition of only 50, referenced as Firos 78...
Category
1990s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Lillies and Bowls (still life of flowers and colorful bowls)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The moon, bowls, lillies and birds are featured in this 2002 mezzotint. It is #17 from an edition of 75 and is signed, titled, dated and edition by hand by this Korean artist born i...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Spider Lily: An Original 18th C. 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. Ephemerum Virginianu flore Purpureo, B. Ephemer...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Drift (dramatic nocturne in America's suburbia)
By Jacob Crook
Located in New Orleans, LA
Drift is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 10. This is #3/10. Location is Jarnigan ST in Starksville, Mississippi
Jacob Crook was born in St. Loui...
Category
2010s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Kastani IV (Chestnuts) by Guntars Sietins
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. His surreal constructions of Kastani (chestnut...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Apple Peeler II (a kitchen tool interpreted by paintings of Yves Tanguy)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Grande coupe de mangues
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a three-plate color mezzotint.
The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches.
Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Combination Knit, mezzotint by Katsunori Hamanishi, rope, Japan, black and white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Combination Knit, mezzotint by Katsunori Hamanishi, rope, Japan, black and white
edition number 8/30
Category
1990s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer IV (part of a typewriter that is iconic)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Le Talon Aigviille (Marlene Dietrich's Stiletto Heel -- In time for PRIDE)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This mezzotint was created by Laurent Sckolnyk and was meant as an homage to the movie stars of yesteryear -- in this case Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich was an icon in the gay community...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer Needle
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne. This impression is #98 out of 100
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
1980s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Retained Time
By Sonja Lamut
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Retained Time
Color mezzotint, c. 1970's
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 30 (15/30)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 11 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches
Sonja Lamut: A contemporary illustrator, painter and mezzotint engraver, Sonja Lamut received her B.F.A. from the University of Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and her M.F.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York. She is presently Assistant Professor of Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.
During her career Sonja Lamut has illustrated numerous books, particularly in the field of children's literature. These include, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Great Green Notebook of Katie Roberts, The Famous Adventures of Jack, Lemuel the Fool, Little Mermaid, Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks (New York Times Children's Books list Bestseller), Love You, Soldier, . She is also the author and illustrator of the following works; Too Noisy!, Bugs and Halloween Costumes.
Sonia Lamut's art has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as Gallery shows in New York, Boston Miami, Greenwich Stockholm, Ljubjiana and numerous other national and international group shows. Today her art is included in the following collections; the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art , Fredrikstad, the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, the Museum of Modern art, Belgrade, he National Museum, Krakow and many other important private and public institutions.
For several decades, the American artist, Sonja Lamut has produced a number of striking works of art in the most demanding of all graphic media -- the mezzotint. In 1974 she was a participating artist in the exhibition, "International Mezzotint Today" in London, England. Utilizing the unique, black tonal values of this intaglio method she has created intriguing imagery, such as, "Cage".
Courtesy: Art of the Print
Collections
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, Fredrikstad
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
College Board, New York
Utubo Gallery, Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade
National Museum, Krakow
Awards/Publications:
“Grand Prix” in Mediterranean Art...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer II (Woodgrain, incised metal plate of a Singer typewriter casts shadows)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Vase aux orchidées
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a three-plate color mezzotint.
The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches.
Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
L'orchidée
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a three-plate color mezzotint.
The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches.
Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.
Category
Late 20th Century Art Nouveau Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Flowering Livid Amaranth: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
An 18th century color printed in addition to hand colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) depicting the following flowering amaranthus p...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Thorns
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is impression #12 of 35 impressions
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . ....
Category
Early 2000s Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Still Life with Eggs - Original handsigned etching - Limited / 150
By Mario Avati
Located in Paris, IDF
Mario AVATI
Still Life with Eggs
Original black manner etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 150 copies
On vellum 38 x 48 cm (c. 15 x 19 in)
Au...
Category
1970s Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
Kastani VII (Chestnuts)
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 hyper realistic detail of each chestnut in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Flowering Dragonmouth: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
An 18th century hand colored botanical engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) depicting the following flowering sage plants:...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Elegy for a Forgotten Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII 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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Maniere Noire a la Noisette Belle, Dark Minimalist Mezzotint 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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Trivium MMV
Located in New Orleans, LA
In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the thr...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Lithograph, Screen
Livre (An opening to the book of knowledge)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image seems to capture the opening of knowledge through books. At the top of the imagemoors are opening revealing a sliver of light providing entree to yer massive book at the ...
Category
1970s Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Missing Link
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
2010s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
Mezzotint, 1957
Signed, titled & numberred in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (40/50)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 10 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 1...
Category
1950s 85 New Wave Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Made in China (A lantern with Chinese characters etched on the base)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
In Memory of an Historic Phrase
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
Category
1970s Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
La poire
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a three-plate color mezzotint.
The mat dimensions are 20 x 16 inches.
Signed "Schkolnyk" at lower right.
Category
20th Century Art Deco Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
L' Ananas (The Pineapple, a symbol of hospitality)
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
1980s American Modern Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer 10101
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer 10101", is an image of Singer I as seen through a drafting template. It was issued as an edition of 40 and was printed at the Indiana University print...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
In the Silence of Passing Years
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Elephant and Pears - Original Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1970s
By Mario Avati
Located in Roma, IT
Elephant and Pears is original etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009).
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the low...
Category
1970s Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
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 Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Game Work No. 20
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Set of Four Gourds
Located in London, GB
Set of 4 double-page mezzotint engravings, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Published: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, Regensburg, 1737].
An attractive collection of fine plates...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Mezzotint Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
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