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Jeff
Clarke R.E.
(Born
Brighton 1935)
Cruciform
Variant II
Cruciform
Variant II
227 x 207 mm
Aquatint with collaged stop-outs and burnishing, 1977.
A later state of the same plate as the previous item, but after burnishing with a power tool.
A unique impression.
Signed in pencil.
On wove.
£250
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Additional
Information about the Print
The last of the five extant ‘subjects’ made when Jeff briefly ventured into abstraction, under the influence of his association with Terry Frost at Reading University.
For
the earlier state collage stop-outs were applied
to the plate and a resin aquatint ground added
before biting in the acid bath. The collaged
shapes prevented biting beneath them so that,
after wiping the inked-up plate for printing,
the ink did not remain where the plate had been
protected and the shapes ‘printed’ as ‘white’,
or where burnished a shade of grey. In the later
state the plate was reworked with a power tools,
the ‘white’ dominant cross burnished in, and
holes were drilled to ‘non-print’ as white spots.
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