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Jeff
Clarke R.E.
(Born
Brighton 1935)
Cruciform Variant I
Cruciform Variant I
228 x 205 mm
Aquatint and collage stop-out, 1977.
An early state, with only slight burnishing and before the drilled holes.
A unique impression.
Signed in pencil.
On wove.
£250
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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 friendship with Terry Frost
at Reading University in the mid-1970’s.
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’.
Tonal
variation in these forms was achieved through
selectively lightly burnishing the plate.
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