Passage Verdeau (Projet d'Agrandissement) - 2nd plate by Erik Desmazieres

Passage Verdeau (Projet dAgrandissement) - 2nd plate by Erik Desmazieres

Passage Verdeau (Projet d'Agrandissement) - 2nd plate

Erik Desmazieres

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Title

Passage Verdeau (Projet d'Agrandissement) - 2nd plate

 
Artist

Erik Desmazieres

  1948 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1988  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
24 5/16 x 17 9/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
24 of 90  
Annotations
pencil editioned lower left, titled, lower center and dated after signature 
Reference
Fitch Febvrel Gallery 127 
Paper
ivory Tiepolo Fabriano wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
21208 
Price
$1,700.00 
Description

"Place Verdeau" is the first image from a suite of 6 etchings, done between 1988 and 1991, titled 'Passages Parisiens - Projets d'Agrandissment' (Parisian Passages - Enlarging Project) in a total edition of 90.

Desmazieres published 60 of the works in 1991 as a portfolio, with a seventh added etched frontispiece. The remaining 30 were published individually, as this impression.

All the images are of the large, ornate passageways that are found throughout Paris, built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A promenade through the passageways became a chic and fashionable activity for the bourgeois society to partake in. They were THE place to be seen, strolling in one of these innovative and exciting new spaces, some boasting heating or electric lights.

Desmazieres enlarges the passageways and views them from unusual angles. If there are people in the prints they appear almost as insects, only there to give these edifices perspective.

The passageways illustrated in the series, besides Place Verdeau, are: Passage Du Bourg L'Abbé; Galerie Véro-Dodat; Passage Choiseul; Galerie Vivienne and Passage du Caire.

 
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