Les Amants

 

Gail Singer

  1924 - 1985 (biography)

1959  

color intaglio 

10 7/8 x 15 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

33 of 45  

pencil titled in lower center, dated after signature and editioned in lower left 

 

antique-white BFK Rives watermarked wove 

published 

artist 

20359 

$800.00 

Les Mants (The Lovers) exemplifies Gail Singer's dexterity within the intaglio medium, using textures and automatic line to portray an image of vibrant energy emerging from a velvety darkness. Singer worked at Atelier 17 in 1955 after Stanley William Hayter had reopened the popular experimental studio following the war. She would combine the techniques of etching, aquatint, open bite, and viscosity, and also worked in relief, printing the surface of her matrix be it a metal plate, wood, or linoleum.