Night (The Dreamer) (also called "The Sleeper")

 

George Tooker

  1920 - 2011 (biography)

1975  

inkless intaglio 

7 1/2 x 10 1/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

59 of 100  

editioned in pencil 

Garver 1 

Arches buff wove 

published 

embossed at Joel Meisner & Company, Inc., Foundry, Plainview, New York 

LCH101 

SOLD

"Night" is based on an egg tempera on panel painting, done in 1963. "Night" is Tooker's first original print. Walter Maibaum of Editions Press in San Francisco describes this process in the book "George Tooker," published by David Tunkel Gallery (ISBN:0-936680-00-8). "...Mr. Tooker also completed his first Original Intaglio Print, "Sleepers." (Actually titled "Night," or the "The Dreamer) This edition was printed without any color. The artist acheived his 'complete image' through clever use of three dimensions. His work was embossed into paper with heavy pressure with an intaglio press. The Artist executed a three-dimensional Bas-Relief image utelizing a combination of sculptors and dental tools. He carefully sculpted wax into the form....A metal mold was made from his wax, and it was from this mold that the edition was ultimately embossed (printed) on the intaglio press." The printing was done in Plainview, NY by Joel Meisner & Co. Foundry. The buff Arches paper used for this print tends to bleach out when exposed to light.