Repose a.k.a.:"Sleep" and "Sleeper"

 

George Tooker

  1920 - 2011 (biography)

1976  

embossed inkless intaglio 

9 3/4 x 12 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

48 of 150  

pencil editioned 

Garver 2 - Graphic Work; Tunkel 17 

Arches Buff 

i/i 

artist 

23547 

$1,500.00 

Tooker cautiously moved into multiples in the mid-70s. He produced 2 embossed intaglio prints, embossed at Joel Meismer & Company, Inc. in Plainview, New York. In the 1980 David Tunkl Gallery exhibition catalog of Tooker's work Editions Press director Walter F. Maibaum commented about Tooker's approach to printmaking and the embossed works: "...Mr. Tooker also completed his first Original Intaglio Print, 'Sleepers'. This edition was produced without any color. The artist achieved his 'complete image' through clever use of three dimensions. His work was embossed into paper under heavy pressure with an intaglio press. The artist executed a three-dimensional Bas-Relief image utilizing a combination of sculptor's and dental tools. He carefully sculpted wax into the form, which resulted in the image ultimately embossed into paper. A metal mold was made from his wax, and it was the mold that the edition was ultimately embossed (printed) on the intaglio press."