Gentleness

 

Chaim Koppelman

  1920 - 2009 (biography)

1962  

aquatint with etching 

19 5/8 x 15 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

14 of 30  

pencil titled in lower center margin 

 

heavy ivory wove 

published 

artist 

20747 

$500.00 

"Gentleness" is one of Koppelman's best known etchings. A figure reaches slowly toward a herd of animal figures, possibly sheep. There is a mysterious glow illuminating the foreground, casting shadows of the figures.