Gravure no 123

 

Pierre Courtin

  1921 - 2012 (biography)

1947  

engraving, roulette and embossing 

8 3/8 x 3 1/2" platemark 

lower right pencil 

22 of 25  

edition info 

Riviere 36 

heavy wove rag 

5th of 5 

artist 

6488 

$750.00 

Pierre Courtin began engraving in 1944. "Gravure no 123" was done in 1947 using a combination of engraving, roulette and embossing, where the plate is deeply bitten with acid and scraped so that the paper is pressed into a void when it is printed, the result being a 3-dimensional area. in 1950 Courtin began to evolve a personal method of creating sculptural prints.