Eiffel Tower in Magenta - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Print

NOTE: This work is sold and ships without a frame or mat. It is placed between two pieces of museum board and two of heavy duty board, all four wrapped in shipment paper. A CARDBOARD BOX IS USED IN SHIPMENT. The media for this hand-created, multiple-plate etching includes: paper; oil-based inks from France; hand-dyed mulberry bark paper from Thailand infused with kozo threads; and, powdered, hand-made methyl cellulose mixed with spring water. The studio techniques employed include INTAGLIO, AQUATINT, DRYPOINT, and CHINE COLLE. The artist manually printed the editions on a large BRAND flatbed press at The Center for Works on Paper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US as part of The Open Studio In Printmaking at Fleisher Art. The artist published all editions. These special editions are limited to only FIVE, and each grouping is limited to just four etchings. The artist used six Nitric acid baths in the etching process before reaching his work’s desired design. Each print took over ten hours to produce, partially due to the fact that the artist hand-cut nine individual acetate stencils from which he create nine separate treated and cut mulberry bark paper pieces for each print (in the Chine colle process). This etching is based on a photograph that the artist took in Paris; the work uses four individually cut zinc plates, stacked in a vertical row on the printing-press-bed. Each plate measures three-inches high by four-inches wide, making the overall image about twelve-and-one-half inches high by four inches wide. In metric terms this translates to an individual plate size of 7.6200 centimeters high by 10.160 centimeters wide, and to an image size of 31.750 centimeters, respectfully. The later includes small spaces left between the plates. The French paper used was Rives BFK white and measures either eighteen or twenty-two inches high by ten inches wide, or 45.720 or 55.880 centimeters/ by 25.400 centimeters. Pictured here is a print from the FIRST EDITION. ARTIST’S NOTES: “This work deals with AMERICANA HISTORY and is the first work in my Series entitled, DENTAL OFFICE, a grouping of works that reminded me of Dentists’ Offices of the 1950s to today. For some odd reason, dentists have rather kitchy renditions of the Eiffel Tower on their office walls. I’m not saying this etching is kitch, rather it celebrates the artists who have immortalized this symbol in commercial ventures that appeal to the KITCH public . . . especially on Paris streets, in US mall art-galleries, and seaside resort boardwalk exhibits.”

Printmaking:Aquatint on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:4

Size:10 W x 19 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.