After Boucher - femme allongée - Limited Edition of 25 Print

One of a limited edition of 25 artist's prints, hand-printed, signed and numbered by the artist. Simplifying an 18th century Rococo image into the form of a lino print brings the search for beauty into the present. This is a search for the minimal line, which is always there in great art, but not always obvious until you try to reproduce it. With lino in only one colour there is no fudging and nowhere to hide. It either works or it doesn't. Many great artists including Picasso and Turner adapted and developed images from other artists to make new works of art. In my own borrowing I have created post-modern Rococo: the inspiration is the painting of Louise O'Murphy, mistress to King Louis V, by 18th-century artist François Boucher. I wanted to reduce the image to utter simplicity. This is a hand-made artist's print, not a photographic copy (unless you are buying the professionally-made reproduction print). The print is on acid-free Japanese Kitakata paper (pale buff coloured). The paper is smooth and takes the ink well, leaving a sharp image. Image size 12x8 inches, paper size approximately 16x12 inches. My artist's hand-made prints are posted unframed in cardboard tubes.