Le Chardon doré

 

Judith Rothchild

  1950 - PRESENT (biography)

2010  

mezzotint 

9 3/4 x 7 13/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

16 of 60  

pencil titled, lower center 

 

ivory wove Hahnemuhle 

published 

artist 

18423 

$500.00 

Judith Rothchild was born in the U.S. but lives and works in France. Her preferred printmaking medium is mezzotint, which develops an image from a black surface. In this mezzotint she runs the gammet from an intense black background to the touches of white light on the and many tones between. Rothchild comments about her work: "The skill of the process is to bring up the image slowly, caressing the forms with the burnisher, occasionally printing proofs. At the same time, the surface of the plate evolves; the roughness becomes soft velvetand the plate is finally ready to return all the hours of drawing that one has put in."