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Jeff
Clarke R.E.
(Born
Brighton 1935)
Night
Windows
Night
Windows
379 x 252 mm
Aquatint, with scraping, stop-out and drilled holes, 1976-77.
Artist’s proof. The unique extant impression.
Signed in pencil and dated.
On wove.
£500
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Additional
Information about the Print
Another of the five extant ‘subjects’ made when Jeff briefly ventured into abstraction, under the influence of his association with Terry Frost at Reading University in the mid-1970’s.
The
zinc plate was first etched with a grid all over,
still just visible. It was then scraped in places
with power tools. Collage stop-outs were applied
to the plate and a resin aquatint ground added
before rebiting in the acid bath.
The collaged
shapes prevented biting beneath them, so that
after wiping the inked-up plate for printing,
the ink could not reach where the
plate had been protected and the shapes ‘printed’ as ‘white’.
The
white spots were created by drilling holes (which
could not receive ink at all) right through the
plate, so that the natural ‘white’ of the paper
shows as in ‘blind’ printing.
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