Matines (poem by Marie Noël) by Magdeleine Mocquot

Matines (poem by Marie Noël) by Magdeleine Mocquot

Matines (poem by Marie Noël)

Magdeleine Mocquot

Title

Matines (poem by Marie Noël)

 
Artist
Year
c. 1950  
Technique
Relief etching with offset color 
Image Size
11 3/8 x 7 3/4" image 
Signature
Pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
trial proof, no formal edition. 
Annotations
Pencil annotated: "Epreuve d'essai" 
Reference
 
Paper
Cream toothy wove 
State
Color proof 
Publisher
Artist at Atelier 17 
Inventory ID
16376 
Price
SOLD
Description

With this experimental proof Magdeleine Mocquot utilizes a printing technique that was developed by William Blake, a relief etching, using offset color and explored at Atelier 17.

In 1947 S.W. Hayter, poet Ruthven Todd and Joan Miro began studying the technique that poet/artist William Blake had developed and, with the permission of collector Lessing J. Rosenwald, Hayter pulled some proofs from the only surviving remnant of one of Blake's plates. Using two plates, one etched and printed relief and the other plate with reticulated color applied, printed offset to the first plate and then printed.

In 1947 the Ruthven Todd portfolio of poems, using this method, was printed at Atelier 17 with prints by: Calder, Ernst, Lipchitz, Masson, Hayter, Miro, Phillips and Tanguey.

This print was probably done by Mocquot at Atelier 17 in Paris, after it had moved back in 1950. It is doubtful that it was ever editioned. Mocquot had printed at Atelier 17 in the 30s, before the move to New York. For more information on the artist, please see our biography.

Poet Marie Rouget, who was born in Auxerre, on February 16, 1883, was known by the pen-name Marie Noël. She was a French poet and officer of the Légion d'honneur. Marie Noël died on 23 December 1967.